by Amanda Tyler | Oct 12, 2020 | Opinion
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings today on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would fill the seat that has been vacant since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last month. In...
by Lauren Markoe | Mar 10, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims get underway, a political science professor says research shows that affiliation with a mosque increases Muslims’ civic engagement. “The more religious American Muslims happen to be,...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 8, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Days ahead of a controversial congressional hearing on Islamic extremism, the Obama administration is highlighting the role Muslim Americans play in combating radicalism in their communities. “I am here to talk to you about how our communities—your...
by Richard Yeakley | Feb 18, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King is facing grassroots pressure to cancel his planned hearings on the “radicalization” of U.S. Muslims. “He is doing precisely what President George Washington promised would not happen: he is...
