On a new Post Reports: scotusreporter on the Supreme Court’s differing decisions on religious rights. psullivan1 on a small Northern Virginia neighborhood bracing for Amazon. Plus, foreign tech workers are choosing Canada over the U.S.
When one Buddhist inmate was sentenced to death in Texas, the Supreme Court upheld a stay of execution, saying the state needed to allow the requested Buddhist spiritual adviser in the execution chamber. But in another similar case in Alabama, the Supreme Court let the execution of a Muslim inmate continue without an imam present.
The recent Amazon decision to open a second headquarters in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City was troubling for some residents of the nearby Arlandria neighborhood, a small, working-class area where a predominantly Latino population flourishes.
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