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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Case in Point, we cover the first (already?!) Supreme Court opinion of the October, 2024 term, and talk with Keisha Russell of First Liberty, the nation's largest public interest law firm dedicated exclusively to the defense of religious freedom in the courts. Keisha discusses First Liberty's defense of a historic church, and a religious charitable organization, plus gives us a preview of her upcoming book, "Uncommon Courage." What can Americans do in a culture increasingly hostile to religious expression? That and more on this week's episode of Case in Point.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Case and Point, the Legal Show for Regular People. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow here at our Edwin Meese, the Third Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. |
| 0:22.1 | And isn't that a mouthful? And if you're thinking, yes, I look particularly fancy tonight. |
| 0:27.1 | Tonight we're celebrating the Heritage Foundation Christmas party. So I'm just early for today's |
| 0:32.7 | podcast, but really looking forward to talking to you. Before we get to our guest at First Liberty Institute today, |
| 0:40.4 | there are a couple of legal developments that bear noting before we hop in. |
| 0:44.7 | First of all, let me tell you about what the Supreme Court did not decide to take. |
| 0:49.1 | It actually dismissed two cases, |
| 0:53.4 | what's called generally declining or denying a petition for |
| 0:57.9 | certiorari, Latin, okay, but it just means a petition for a review, a request to take up the |
| 1:04.1 | case. |
| 1:04.7 | Two cases, we've talked about parental rights, we've talked about gender identity. Two cases specifically related to these two |
| 1:13.6 | issues were just dismissed at the Supreme Court. The first case is a case called Boston Parent |
| 1:19.1 | Coalition for Academic Excellence versus School Committee for City of Boston. Now our friends over |
| 1:25.5 | at Pacific Legal Foundation brought this. This was a challenge under |
| 1:29.1 | the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Remember, equal protection is at issue. That 14th |
| 1:35.4 | amendment is at issue in the gender medicine case we talked about last week with Attorney General |
| 1:40.7 | Scrimetti in the U.S. v. Scrametti case. Remember, it ensures, it protects |
| 1:46.6 | all individuals in the United States are given equal protection of the laws. But it was a challenge |
| 1:52.4 | to a racially motivated alteration of a public school district's admission criteria. Why? |
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