Judicial Council to hear complaints on judges up for election
The Alaska Judicial Council, a small but extremely powerful group that controls placement of all judges in Alaska – says it wants to hear from rank-and-file Alaskans regarding the suitability of 30 judges up for retention elections this year. After hearing
Anchorage woman sentenced for stealing $100K from catholic school and church
Nicole Lewis, 41, pleaded guilty to felony theft for stealing from Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Parish in Anchorage. Hired as the parish office manager in 2021, Lewis proceeded to steal more than $65,000 in cash donations to the church and its small
Kenai subjected to another ‘Hail Satan’ prayer at borough assembly meeting
Thanks to the ACLU’s dogged defense of public prayers to Satan, the Kenai Borough Assembly endured yet another invocation to Lucifer on April 6. Following the pledge of allegiance, Satanic Temple member Iris Fontana proclaimed her “prayer” over the
Lawyer: Satanist ‘prayers’ at Kenai Assembly not supported by Alaska’s Constitution
Brett Harvey, Senior Legal Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, has litigated First Amendment cases for nearly 20 years. Notably, he argued to reinstate a policy allowing prayer before town meetings in a small city in New York. That case, Town of Greece v.
Atheists & Satanists continue to mock prayers at Kenai Assembly meetings
In his address to the Massachusetts Militia on Oct. 11, 1798, President John Adams said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Nearly 221 years later, Alaskans intend
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