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Pat Robertson, who was a central player in religious-right broadcasting and politics for decades, died on Thursday. As People For the American Way President Svante Myrick noted, “Pat Robertson was a key figure in the rise of the authoritarian religious-right political movement.

Donald Trump’s traveling road show made it to Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Saturday. Robertson himself addressed the rally, along with several other Religious Right figures: Ralph Reed, who built Robertson’s Christian Coalition into a political powerhouse in the

Politico’s Shane Goldmacher reported this week that Ted Cruz is planning a major rally on “religious liberty” at Bob Jones University in November.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissent in the Hobby Lobby case that the Court’s conservative majority had “ventured into a minefield” with its decision.