Symposium: Religious pluralism, civic unity, and the judicial role
Richard W. Garnett is Professor of Law, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and the Director of the Program on Church, State & Society at the University of Notre Dame.
Legislative prayer symposium
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Symposium: Lemon wins a reprieve, but the end is near
Eric Rassbach is Deputy General Counsel at the Becket Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of the Town of Greece. Town of Greece is clearly a big win for the town and for a more restrained view of what the Establishment Clause prohibits, and rightly so.
Symposium: Religious diversity, thick and thin
Chad Flanders is an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law. 1. Town of Greece v. Galloway is a case about religious diversity – how to recognize it and how to accommodate it.
Symposium: Thoughts on Town of Greece – if the kilt fits
Paul Horwitz is the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and the author of The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Symposium: Town of Greece v. Galloway going forward
The Supreme Court yesterday decided Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case about prayer at local town council meetings. The Supreme Court upheld the prayer scheme, which is probably what most people expected. There were no big surprises, no sea change in the law.
Symposium: Dismantling the wall that should separate church and state
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law Incrementally rather than dramatically, the Roberts Court is eroding the notion of a wall separating church and state and allowing much more religious involvement in government and government support for religion.
Symposium: Time to restore longstanding meaning – and sanity – to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway
Ken Klukowski is on faculty at Liberty University School of Law, senior fellow for religious liberty at the Family Research Council, and senior legal analyst for Breitbart News (Twitter @kenklukowski). He represents members of Congress in the Galloway case.
Town of Greece v. Galloway symposium: The end of “no endorsement”?
Steven D. Smith is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego From Galloway we might modestly expect illumination about the relation between official prayer and the “no endorsement of religion” doctrine.
Town of Greece v. Galloway: What is the Supreme Court up to?
Jessie Hill is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. The Court’s decision to revisit legislative prayer on the thirtieth anniversary of Marsh v. Chambers, upholding the state of Nebraska’s legislative chaplaincy based on its perceived ratification by longstanding history and tradition, raises numerous questions about the direction its Establishment Clause jurisprudence might take.
Symposium: Legislative prayer and judicial review
Richard W. Garnett is a Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. After taking a year off from church-state cases, the Justices are set to jump back into the fray.
Symposium: Prayer and the machinery of the state
Daniel Mach is Director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. In Town of Greece v. Galloway, the Supreme Court will address the contentious practice of legislative prayer for the first time in three decades.
Symposium: Desperate measures in Town of Greece
Eric Rassbach is Deputy General Counsel at the Becket Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of the Town of Greece. Sometimes there comes a “Hail Mary moment” in a lawsuit, where one side, facing imminent disaster, stakes everything on one desperate, final gambit.
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