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Anti-Catholic Attacks After Dobbs
In late June of 1992, just a few weeks before I entered law school, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In that case, a...
After Fulton, Religious Foster Care Agencies Still Vulnerable
A distinctive feature of Chief Justice John Roberts’s nearly 16-year tenure on the Supreme Court is a growing body of precedents interpreting and enforcing the First Amendment’s religion clauses...
A Win For Religious Schools
John Roberts just bulldozed the wall separating church and state,” a Slate writer announced after the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision in Espinoza v. Montana. Of course, the chief justice...
Mild and Equitable Establishments
Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,” and postcard-perfect views of Glacier National Park. And, of course, for “Big...
2012 Supreme Court Roundup
Students in my constitutional law course are usually surprised, and often skeptical, when I propose that the most important case they will study is not about abortion rights, the...
Things Not Caesar’s
Clarity and unanimity have not exactly been the hallmarks of the Supreme Court’s efforts to interpret and enforce the Constitution’s religion clauses. In the two Ten Commandments cases decided...
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court by Ronald B. Flowers, Melissa Rogers, and Steven K. Green Baylor, 1200 pages, $69.95 paper Justice Clarence Thomas has observed that the Supreme...
Freedom for Faith, Freedom for All
In Defense of Religious Liberty By David Novak ISI, 250 pages, $18 William James once quipped that “in this age of toleration,” no one “will ever try actively to...
Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights
Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff Princeton University Press, 416 pages, $39.50 Nicholas Wolterstorff is a gifted moral philosopher and among the most eminent Christian scholars in any...
Misreading Cardinal George
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Speechless in Seattle
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Speechless in Seattle
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Free to Believe
Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager Harvard University Press, 352 pages, $28.95 These might seem depressing days for our public conversations about...
