Plus: Supreme Court Upholds School Choice, Free Exercise in Maine Case
June 22 2022
Good morning from Washington, where school choice and freedom of religion score another win at the Supreme Court. We’ve got a rundown from Sarah Parshall Perry and Jon Butcher. In a new book, Justice Clarence Thomas describes a grandfather’s lasting admonitions. On the podcast, what the Federal Reserve can do to tame inflation. Plus: House Republicans say they know how to lower gas prices; school parents tackle critical race theory; and trans activists use suicide as a threat. On this date in 1941, over 3 million German troops assault Russia in three parallel offensives, in what historians call the most powerful invasion force in history.
“Maine’s decision to continue excluding religious schools from its tuition-assistance program … promotes stricter separation of church and state” than the Constitution, writes Chief Justice Roberts.
Americans are paying about $2,500 more for energy because of Biden administration policies, says former Energy Secretary Rick Perry at a House Republican hearing.
“The Fed’s had [a] 0% interest rate for 10 years and created this everything bubble,” says Dave Brat, dean at the Liberty University School of Business and a former Virginia congressman.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation acquaints parents with the scope of students’ First Amendment speech rights, which are lawfully restricted, but not extinguished, in educational environments.
“Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents.
Despite the closure of many Confucius Institutes in the past few years, Chinese influence operations in American schools, both higher education and K-12, continue.
