{"id":31321,"date":"2016-07-01T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=31321"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:44:01","slug":"supreme-court-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/07\/01\/supreme-court-2016\/31321\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It was a term defined by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Nevertheless, the <span class=\"s1\">High <\/span>Court completed its work<span class=\"s1\"> this week (June27)<\/span> after handing down a number of decisions important to religious communities.\u00a0 The eight justices ruled on immigration, abortion, the so-called \u201ccontraception mandate\u201d in the Affordable Care Act<span class=\"s1\">,<\/span> and affirmative action in college admissions.\u00a0Host Bob Abernethy <span class=\"s2\">and<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">m<\/span>anaging <span class=\"s1\">e<\/span>ditor Kim Lawton <span class=\"s1\">discuss the cases and<\/span> decisions with Richard Wolf, who covers the <span class=\"s1\">c<\/span>ourt for <em>USA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it wrapped up its current term this week, the US Supreme Court handed down a number of decisions important to religious communities on issues including immigration, abortion, and affirmative action. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/07\/01\/supreme-court-2016\/31321\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-law","topics-us-domestic-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Supreme Court 2016 | July 1, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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