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Trump’s Pick to Replace Sessions Thinks Judges Need a “Biblical View” of Justice

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Yesterday, just hours after the midterm elections had ended, Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announced that he would be replaced by his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker. In a 2014 debate when he was running for the U.S. Senate, now acting attorney general Whitaker said judges should have a Christian worldview, and […]

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Sessions details next steps for Justice Department’s religious liberty task force

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced next steps for the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Task Force, inspired by one of the Supreme Court’s most important rulings on religious rights in decades. After the nation’s highest court ruled last year that states cannot refuse all financial aid to churches, Sessions said Monday that the task

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Congressional Freethought Caucus Letter to Department of Justice Regarding New Religious Liberty Task Force

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The Congressional Freethought Caucus sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions tough questions about the newly created Religious Liberty Task Force that Sessions needs to answer. When Sessions goes to testify before Congress, expect members of the Congressional Freethought Caucus to demand answers to these important questions. The Secular Coalition for America also submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request on

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We Still Know Almost Nothing About Trump Admin’s “Religious Liberty Task Force”

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It’s been more than a week since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” with a lot of fanfare, yet we still know almost nothing about it, and that’s pretty terrifying. Church/state separation groups as well as religious allies have described the Task Force as “one-sided” and a ploy to use religion as

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The Justice Department Is Keeping Secrets About Its New Religious Liberty Task Force

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a spectacle of announcing his Religious Liberty Task Force last Monday, when he said a “dangerous movement” threatening people of faith must be “confronted intellectually and politically and defeated.” Hosting a Religious Liberty Summit inside the Department of Justice headquarters, Sessions had surrounded himself largely with players from the religious

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Some Religious Groups Are Coming Out Against the “Religious Freedom Task Force”

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The Trump administration’s taxpayer-funded “Religious Freedom Task Force” is “one-sided” and uses religion as a “sword” to deny vulnerable people basic human rights. Those aren’t the words of atheists but of religious groups in the U.S. We first wrote about this issue earlier this week, when we pointed out that a secular country like ours shouldn’t promote any particular

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New 'Religious Liberty Task Force' Highlights Sessions, DOJ Priorities

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On Monday the Department of Justice announced the creation of a Religious Liberty Task Force. NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Emma Green, The Atlantic reporter, about the Trump administration’s legal emphasis on religious liberty. JEFF SESSIONS: A dangerous movement, undetected by many but real, is now challenging and eroding a great tradition of religious freedom. CORNISH: That

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Sessions' religious liberty task force panned by civil rights groups, LGBTQ advocates

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Civil rights groups and LGBTQ advocates on Tuesday tore into the Department of Justice’s newly formed “religious liberty task force,” slamming the move as a discriminatory affront to civil liberties masquerading as protections for people of faith. “This task force’s agenda isn’t consistent with religious freedom. Religious freedom protects our right to our beliefs, not

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Jeff Sessions announces a religious liberty task force to combat “dangerous” secularism

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The Trump administration has consistently championed a narrow view of religious liberty in America. But the Justice Department’s latest religious liberty initiative may be the most far-reaching — and potentially troubling — one yet. On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a “Religious Liberty Task Force” that will enforce a 2017 DOJ memo ordering

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