Opinion; Hobby Lobby contraception ruling, preserving Second Amendment rights and more letters to the editor. Published: ; Jul. 01, 2014, 8:29 p.m.

JURIST Guest Columnist Katharine Suominen of St. John’s University School of Law, Class of 2016, is the eleventh author in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and ...

In this Oct. 2, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks in Ankeny, Iowa. (The Associated Press) By Cass Sunstein After yet another gun-related tragedy, the U.S. is ...

This is the statute that Hobby Lobby is suing under. So RFRA has been federal law for almost 21 years now. If you combine that with the pre-Smith era and you have almost half a century of strict ...

The plight of Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts business whose owners are being forced to compromise their faith, instantly draws the sympathy of religious conservatives. But why should anyone else … ...

Hobby Lobby, for example, closes its more than 600 stores on Sundays, pays employees far above the minimum wage and limits store hours so employees can spend more time with their families.

Hobby Lobby Ruling Fuels Amendment Push (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo) By Eliza Newlin Carney. Posted July 2, 2014 at 3:41pm ...

The first thing to remember is that the First Amendment restricts only government. It says that the government may make no law regarding establishment of religion (among other restrictions on ...

Now that Hobby Lobby’s case is before the Supreme Court, some of the same figures insist that corporations should be denied the right to assert First Amendment protections for religious freedom.

After yet another gun-related tragedy, the U.S. is in the midst of a flurry of new efforts to control people’s access to firearms. As before, those efforts are running into serious trouble. T… ...