Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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Scholars scrutinize civics and history in Utah’s higher ed institutions
Read More: Scholars scrutinize civics and history in Utah’s higher ed institutionsConstructive criticism is part of the spirit of higher learning – and an opportunity for higher education institutions to confirm or rebuild (as the case may be) the public’s trust…
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Oral arguments give public a peek at Supreme Court’s work
Read More: Oral arguments give public a peek at Supreme Court’s workSince the arguments are made available, in transcripts and recordings, to the public, they also provide an opportunity for citizens to gain some familiarity with the issues in a case…
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Dissent? Per curiam? Syllabus? Here’s how to read a Supreme Court decision
Read More: Dissent? Per curiam? Syllabus? Here’s how to read a Supreme Court decisionThe risk of not being able to understand a Supreme Court opinion is that third parties will become the sole source of information on what the court does.
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Free speech case with potential implications for religious (and other) professionals
Read More: Free speech case with potential implications for religious (and other) professionalsThis case should establish whether the state can require creative professionals and businesses to send messages even if it does not express antipathy to the professional or business beliefs.
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Pending abortion ruling is an opportunity to build our civic character
Read More: Pending abortion ruling is an opportunity to build our civic characterIt’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
Read More: Abortion case highlights how previous decisions affect later casesThere 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…
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How to rebuild public trust in public health
Read More: How to rebuild public trust in public healthWhen 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
Read More: New voting trends show the strength of Utah’s approach to vote by mailAmericans 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…
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Counterintuitive idea: Does religious freedom require abortion access?
Read More: 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.”
