A month ago, the Supreme Court granted two certiorari petitions that seek review of a Fourth Circuit ruling that illustrates the sorry mess of the Court’s existing Establishment Clause precedents. At ...
This week, the en banc Sixth Circuit will hear Bormuth v. County of Jackson. The case illustrates how broken establishment-clause jurisprudence has long been. But as Becket and Stanford Law School ...
Another skirmish in America’s culture war reaches the Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a case that some are trying to turn into a fundamental reexamination of the meaning of the Constitution’s ...
CNN sounded the alarm over the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of religious schools in the case of Carson v. Makin on Tuesday, fretting that the Court was now "elevating" religious liberty over "free ...
Though the First Amendment’s command that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” is straightforward, the Supreme Court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence is anything ...
WASHINGTON (CN) — Weather-worn and blackened from more than 90 years in the elements, the Bladensburg Peace Cross sits in the middle of a busy three-way interchange just across the Maryland border ...
Thanks very much, again, to The Volokh Conspiracy for inviting me to blog about my recent paper on Justice Breyer's decisions and votes in Establishment Clause cases. In this post, I sketch a second ...
Luke Goodrich is Vice President and Senior Counsel at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which filed a cert-stage amicus brief in support of the petitioners in The American Legion v. American ...
FIRST ON FOX: The religious freedom firm First Liberty sent a letter Tuesday to the City of Palatka, Florida, defending the use of public funds to restore a church's Olympic-sized pool after a ...
At the Law and Religion Forum today, Donald Drakeman (Notre Dame) reflects on an obscure Christmas carol and our even more obscure Establishment Clause jurisprudence. Don writes about a high school ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's jumbled views of the Establishment Clause threaten to render secularism the country's de facto faith. It is time the court adopted a standard that does not punish the ...