Sutherland Institute
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Pending abortion ruling is an opportunity to build our civic character
It’s easy to follow the path of viewing someone who disagrees with you as short on intelligence or morality. It takes depth of character to take the road less traveled.
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Abortion case highlights how previous decisions affect later cases
There needs to be a way to correct decisions at odds with the underlying laws being applied. The court can and does have options to prevent (or correct) this type of result.
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How to rebuild public trust in public health
When public health is used as a tool on behalf of partisan victory, it erodes Americans’ trust in the institution of public health.
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New voting trends show the strength of Utah’s approach to vote by mail
Americans in other states who voted by mail for the first time during the pandemic may be inclined to return to in-person voting, but Utah has a long and successful history with voting by mail.
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Counterintuitive idea: Does religious freedom require abortion access?
Is there any legal merit to the claim that protecting religious freedom requires unfettered access to abortion? A safe legalistic answer would be, “It depends.”
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Polls suggest parents, teachers should influence curriculum
Those polled seem to agree that curriculum decisions should be influenced most by people closest to schools and students rather than by those in state and national capitals.
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Why the U.S. is ‘eternally vigilant’ against suppression of speech
Putting aside whether listening to every possible opinion is actually the best way to discern truth, there are lessons from the Supreme Court’s extremely broad protection of speech for parallel matters like religious freedom.
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More evidence needed to clarify the ranked-choice voting debate
Ranked-choice voting is not used for most U.S. elections, so data about its impacts here is relatively sparse.
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Leaks, intimidation not entirely new, but this level is unprecedented
What the Constitution does not provide – and civil society must not countenance – are attempts to shape the Supreme Court’s rulings through pressure.
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Supreme Court leak harms American democracy
the leak of the opinion itself is damaging to American democracy by how it harms the institution of the Supreme Court.