Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...
It’s been a great week for religious liberty. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot exclude religious private schools and their students from tuition aid funding. On Monday, it held ...
The White House found itself in hot water over Easter weekend after media reports claimed that the Biden administration had banished religious themes from its annual children’s Easter egg decorating ...
1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman concocts an ahistorical and highly malleable test for Establishment Clause ...
Louisiana is poised to become the first state in the nation to require schools which accept public funding to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom. This welcome development comes on the heels ...
The Supreme Court addressed the intersection of the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Speech clauses as they relate to a public employee’s personal ...
removed “from the non-private areas of the Alabama State Judicial building.” Glassroth v. Moore, No. 01-T-1268-N, slip op. at 5 (M.D. Ala. Aug. 5, 2003) (App. 127a). Consistent with the Chief ...
(THE CONVERSATION) With the start of another high school football season around the corner, a long-simmering dispute has heated up: prayers at games. Kennedy v. Bremerton, the case of a high school ...