Being written by people from Columbia U and NBC, they can't help editorializing and crediting President Trump only with things they don't like and not crediting him for things they like. They kind of muck up a good article with their politics in the middle.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice...sh-n974531

"...A NBC News and Columbia Journalism Investigations review of dozens of court cases found that in its first two years the Trump administration's Justice Department submitted more friend-of-the-court briefs in religious liberties cases than the Obama administration and the Bush administration during their first two years. It has also filed briefs at lower, trial court levels faster than both of the two previous administrations.

The filings are in keeping with the Trump administration's forthright position on religious liberty. "A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom," then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Summit last July. "This president and this Department of Justice are determined to protect and even advance this magnificent heritage...."

In its first two years, the Trump administration filed 12 amicus briefs and statements of interest in religious liberties cases — a pace of one filing every two months. In their first two years, both the Bush and Obama administrations filed fewer such briefs, two for Bush and eight for Obama. Over its full eight-year span, the Obama administration filed a total of 23, a pace of one every four months. The George W. Bush administration filed 34 briefs over eight years, a pace of one every three months.

All but one of the 23 briefs filed during the Obama administration were about the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), a law passed during the Clinton administration to stop communities from discriminating by using land-use codes to block the construction of houses of worship. The Bush administration filed briefs on a wider range of religious liberty laws, as has the Trump administration...."

For those who wonder why so many of the Religious Right favor Trump:

1. He doesn't kill babies.
2. He supports religious liberty.