Por John Fritze, CNN

Este lunes, la Corte Suprema acordó revisar una ley de Colorado que exige que las guarderías que reciben dinero público matriculen a hijos de parejas del mismo sexo, lo que prepara un importante enfrentamiento en el Tribunal Supremo en torno a la Primera Enmienda, donde se contraponen los derechos religiosos a las familias LGBTQ.

Al mismo tiempo, el tribunal se negó a escuchar otro caso de gran repercusión que involucraba a una pareja de Massachusetts que afirmó que su escuela había comenzado a tratar a su hijo de secundaria como de género no binario en contra de su voluntad.

Tras años de permitir que las escuelas religiosas recibieran financiación estatal en algunos contextos, al igual que las escuelas laicas, el tribunal conservador, con una mayoría de 6 a 3, deberá decidir ahora qué hacer cuando los directivos escolares aleguen que las leyes antidiscriminación destinadas a proteger a las personas homosexuales y transgénero entran en conflicto con sus creencias religiosas. Es probable que la apelación de las parroquias católicas se examine en otoño y que la decisión se dicte el próximo año.

En 2020, Colorado aprobó una disposición electoral que proporciona financiación estatal para un programa preescolar universal, que permite la participación tanto de escuelas públicas como privadas. El programa estatal incluye una cláusula de no discriminación que exige que cada escuela que reciba fondos públicos brinde a los niños elegibles igualdad de oportunidades de inscripción, independientemente de su raza, religión, orientación sexual, identidad de género u otros factores.

Dos parroquias católicas de Colorado y una familia cuyos hijos han asistido a una escuela católica en una de esas parroquias presentaron una demanda alegando que la cláusula de no discriminación violaba la cláusula de libre ejercicio de la Primera Enmienda, que protege la capacidad de los estadounidenses para practicar sus creencias religiosas sin interferencia del Gobierno. La familia y las parroquias están representadas por el bufete de abogados Becket, especializado en defensa de los intereses religiosos.

“En el caso Obergefell, este tribunal prometió que los grupos religiosos estarían protegidos cuando disintieran de las ortodoxias seculares sobre el matrimonio y la sexualidad”, declararon las parroquias católicas ante el Tribunal Supremo, en referencia a la decisión de 2015 en el caso Obergefell contra Hodges, que legalizó de facto el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. “La cláusula de libre ejercicio de la religión simplemente no puede cumplir esa importante función —que este tribunal ha descrito como ‘fundamental para nuestra sociedad pluralista’— si puede eludirse con tanta facilidad”.

En términos generales, el caso parece ideal para un tribunal conservador con una mayoría de 6 a 3, que en los últimos años se ha puesto repetidamente del lado de los intereses religiosos. En una serie de fallos, el tribunal ha dejado claro que cuando el Gobierno abre los programas de financiación educativa a escuelas públicas y privadas, no puede impedir que las escuelas religiosas participen en dichos programas simplemente por ser religiosas.

A principios de este año, la administración de Trump presentó un escrito no solicitado ante la Corte Suprema en apoyo a las diócesis. El Departamento de Justicia afirmó que respaldar la ley podría “obstaculizar el ejercicio religioso en gran parte del país”.

Pero los grupos religiosos solicitaban una decisión que también podría tener repercusiones de gran alcance en el poder de los intereses religiosos para impugnar otras leyes más allá de la educación. Para empezar, pidieron a la Corte Suprema que revocara un precedente de 36 años de antigüedad que ha sido criticado tanto por demócratas como por republicanos, pero que incluso la corte conservadora se ha negado hasta ahora a anular.

Ese precedente permite a los tribu

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

The defamation suit, filed Monday morning in US District Court in the District of Columbia, seeks $250 million in damages.

The Atlantic called the suit “meritless.”

“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” a spokesperson told CNN.

Patel threatened to sue The Atlantic both before and again after the story was published last Friday. He was quoted by the magazine as saying, “I’ll see you in court — bring your checkbook.”

Fitzpatrick said in an interview on MS NOW on Friday night, “I stand by every word of this reporting. We have excellent attorneys.”

The lawsuit says statements in Fitzpatrick’s article “falsely assert” that Patel “is a habitual drunk, unable to perform the duties of his office, is a threat to public safety, is vulnerable to foreign coercion, has violated DOJ ethics rules, is unreachable in emergencies, has required the deployment of ‘breaching equipment’ to extract him from locked rooms, allows alcohol to influence his public statements about criminal investigations, and behaves erratically in a manner that compromises national security.”

The Atlantic “published these statements with actual malice,” the suit states.

“Actual malice” is the high legal standard that public figures must meet to prevail in a defamation case. It means that the author either knew a claim was false or displayed “reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

Defamation cases often fall apart because the plaintiffs fail to prove “actual malice.” In this case, Patel’s lawyers say The Atlantic ignored pre-publication denials, “failed to take even the most basic investigative steps” that “would have easily refuted their claims” and showed “clear editorial animus” against Patel.

Fitzpatrick wrote that she interviewed “more than two dozen people” about Patel’s conduct, “including current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers.”

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity “to discuss sensitive information and private conversations,” and they “described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability.”

CNN has not independently corroborated the anecdotes reported in The Atlantic’s article.

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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN

London (CNN) — A week of assaults on synagogues and other communal buildings has created an atmosphere of heightened anxiety in London’s Jewish community.

And yet this series of antisemitic criminal acts has also strengthened the resolve of some of those affected.

The rabbi of Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, northwest London, which was attacked by arsonists over the weekend, took to social media on Sunday to show members of his congregation gathering in his home to pray.

“We must not be deterred by what is taking place out there. It must not in any way affect who we are as Jews,” Rabbi Yehuda Black said on X.

He is not the only one, according to Michael Wegier, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who told CNN the community is feeling “anxious but resilient.”

“I’m hearing people who are nervous about sending their kids to Jewish schools or coming to synagogue, but one also hears exactly the opposite,” he said in a telephone interview. “There are people who are saying ‘we won’t be cowed, we’ve been here since the mid-17th century and we’re not going anywhere.’”

Nobody was injured in the Kenton attack, which caused minor smoke damage, according to the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that protects the Jewish community. Two people were arrested Sunday night in connection with the incident.

This was the latest in a spate of arson attacks in recent weeks. Last month, arsonists set fire to four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in Golders Green, north London. Four people were subsequently charged by police.

The tension then ramped up further last week, when a synagogue and the former premises of a Jewish charity, both in north London, were attacked.

Two people have been arrested in connection with an attempted arson attack at Finchley Reform Synagogue in the early hours of Wednesday. On the same day, a Persian-language media organization opposed to the Islamic regime in Iran was also attacked. Three people have been charged with “arson with intent to endanger life” in that case.

According to the Metropolitan Police, a total of 15 people have been arrested in connection with the arson incidents.

Counterterrorism officers from the Metropolitan Police said they are investigating Ashab al-Yamin (Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right), which has claimed responsibility for most of these incidents, as well as others in mainland Europe.

In its most recent report, the CST revealed that it recorded 3,700 antisemitic incidents last year, the second-highest in a single calendar year. The highest was in 2023 – the year Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, triggering the brutal war in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Home Office’s