‘It Goes without Saying’?

By Gerard V. Bradley December 20, 2013

Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for the Obama administration. That afternoon Brooklyn federal judge Brian Cogan enjoined enforcement of the HHS “contraception” mandate against a host of Catholic ...

A Disturbing Story About Judge Edith Jones

By Gerard V. Bradley June 6, 2013

Yesterday’s New York Times ran a disturbing story about a speech that Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones gave to the Penn Law School Federalist Society in February. Times writer Ethan ...

Politics & Policy

A Pope Resigns

By Gerard V. Bradley February 11, 2013

Pope Benedict’s resignation raises a host of questions that the Church has not had to face in  600 years. Among them is whether renouncing the papal office (for the reasons ...

Religious Liberty Remains Under Attack in Latest HHS Guidance

By Gerard V. Bradley February 1, 2013

The latest administration proposal does nothing whatsoever to help businesses like Hobby Lobby or Dominos Farms. All for-profit companies are subject to the contraception/abortion mandate, just as before. They will ...

Politics & Policy

The Law as Therapist

By Gerard V. Bradley February 28, 2012

The Obama administration’s contraception mandate touched off a firestorm when it was announced on January 20. Lawsuits challenging the rule were soon filed. Republican presidential hopefuls vowed to reverse it. ...

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The HHS Mandate and the First Amendment

By Gerard V. Bradley February 16, 2012

At this point, it remains unclear how much calm the Obama administration’s “compromise” on its mandate requiring all insurance plans to cover contraception will restore. The “compromise” conceded nothing to ...

Truth and Power: Planned Parenthood, HHS, and Indiana Law

By Gerard V. Bradley June 27, 2011

When Republicans win a statehouse, it almost always means that pro-life legislation is coming down the pike. When Democrats win, it never does. The Republican victories last November led to ...

Let’s Get Hysterical

By Gerard V. Bradley April 20, 2011

’Tis the season for state legislators to get together. Some of them have turned their minds to regulating abortion. My own Indiana General Assembly (now that the house Democrats have ...

Does This Mean DOMA Is Doomed?

By Gerard V. Bradley February 23, 2011

Ed Whelan is right as usual in his post about the Obama administration’s decision to stop defending (sic) the Defense of Marriage Act in court, especially when he writes that ...

Is Lying Ever Permissible?: Undercover, Deep and Shallow

By Gerard V. Bradley February 16, 2011

A very fruitful and, in my judgment, long overdue and much-needed debate has erupted in the blogsosphere about lying. Christopher Tollefsen, an extraordinarily able young philosophy professor, touched off the ...