Struck scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

We're all legal nerds here, and we know that precedent set in any area of the law ripples out across our lives in so many ways.

And our right to religious freedom is one of the most sacred areas of the law.

It protects almost every aspect of our daily lives, rights we all hold dear.

Like LGBTQ plus rights, freedom to choose the type of

health care you need, and ensuring a well-funded and inclusive public school system. Protecting the

separation of church and state is in fact protecting the very foundation of our democracy.

If you're looking for ways to more deeply understand the connection of and from religion to so

many of the civil justice issues we see today,

you should check out the summit for religious freedom, or SURF, an annual conference held in

D.C. and virtually, April 25th through 27th in 26. At SURF, advocates, organizers,

faith leaders, atheists, and everyone in between will come together to take on the

growing threats of Christian nationalism and the efforts to impose one narrow religious belief on all

of us. This is a movement for big change and collaboration across the entire spectrum of religious

belief and non-belief. It strengthens our democracy, it will protect public schools and reproductive

and LGBTQ plus

rights and so much more. So be a part of the movement that's pushing back and standing up for freedom.

You can register to attend today at thesurf.org. That's t-h-esr-f.org.

Hi, everyone. It's Leah. And Melissa. After we originally recorded today's episode, ICE officers,

more than one of them, shot and killed another American citizen in Minnesota. The victim this time is

Alex Jeffrey Pretty. This is the second killing this month. We wanted to talk briefly about what

happened in Minnesota, in part because

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