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Robert Spencer's April 28 Book Follows a 22-Year Publishing Template

Robert Spencer's April 28 book is the latest entry in a 22-year publishing template that earlier targeted Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

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Dozens of Federal Programs Already Fund Religious Schools. Texas Defends Its One Exclusion in Court Tomorrow.

Federal aid reaches religious schools through Title I, IDEA, E-Rate, and more than a dozen other programs. Texas's voucher rule is the outlier — one the Supreme Court has been narrowing for a decade.

The Commission Will Publish. Then the Lawsuit Will Argue Whether It Should Have.

A federal advisory commission is scheduled to release its final report around May 1. A preliminary-injunction hearing to stop it is scheduled for May 28 — 27 days later. The procedural calendar guarantees publication before any court can enjoin it. Here is what that means.

The Commission Will Publish. Then the Lawsuit Will Argue Whether It Should Have.

The Religious Liberty Commission is on track to publish its final report ~May 1. The FACA preliminary-injunction hearing in Interfaith Alliance v. Trump is set for May 28. The procedural calendar guarantees publication first and litigation after. Here is what that sequence actually means.

T-Minus Two. The Amicus Filings That Just Landed Tell You Who Is Watching Bennett's Courtroom.

Forty-eight hours before the permanent-injunction hearing, the amicus docket has filled in. Twenty-three briefs. Eight new since Sunday. The filing pattern is its own data point — and it tells you who the institutional stakeholders are, what arguments they want the court to hear, and which way the wind is blowing.

T-Minus Three. What Hancock Has to Prove Friday — and Why the Legal Standard Has Shifted.

A permanent injunction is not a preliminary one. The standard is tougher, the record is fixed, and the plaintiff is now self-represented. Three questions will decide whether the court grants the relief, denies it, or splits the difference.