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Chief justice no longer sits in supreme court’s ideological center and has lost the power to cast the deciding vote in any ruling

By updating and expanding federal civil rights law, the Equality Act, which passed the House in February, may force churches to change how they do their work.

The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe

Print The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was that Clarence Thomas was talking. That’s right. The Supreme Court justice who once went 10 full years without asking a single question at oral arguments — the justice who sits so quietly staring blankly at the ceiling that he made national headlines in 2013 when he cracked a nearly inaudible, nine-word joke — suddenly can’t...

Column: What does it mean that famously silent Justice Clarence Thomas is suddenly garrulous? Nicholas Goldberg © Provided by The LA Times Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2020. (John Amis / Associated Press) The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe vs. Wade is in jeopardy or that religious freedom and pandemic restrictions were clashing. The big news was that Clarence Thomas was talking. That’s right. The Supreme Court justice who once went 10 full years...