Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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The game’s afoot on the legal definition of “sex.” What was once a commonsense understanding of “sex” as meaning the biological distinctions between male and… Read More
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The transgender bathroom wars don’t stop for the holidays. The latest battleground is Florida, where on Dec. 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the… Read More
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In an already packed Supreme Court term—one in which the justices will consider everything from racial preferences in the college-admissions process to President Joe Biden’s… Read More
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A Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court judge on Tuesday ruled that key provisions of the state’s six-week abortion ban were “plainly unconstitutional” and blocked the… Read More
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File this one under “outcomes we could have predicted.” A federal court last week determined that a beauty pageant association could exclude a transgender “female”… Read More
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Having returned the issue of abortion “to the people and their elected representatives” in June with a watershed opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health… Read More
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In the months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued what many consider its most significant decision in five decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization… Read More
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In what is shaping up to be an action-packed term at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices upped the ante Tuesday by granting review in… Read More
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Another conflict is brewing between the constitutional right to freely exercise religion and the civil right to be free from discrimination. Like several such cases… Read More
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“Truth is conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.” —Noah Webster In George Orwell’s dystopian… Read More
