FDR opened by asking for God to help the Allied forces liberate the suffering people of Europe from their oppressors: ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Another skirmish in America’s culture war reaches the Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a case that some are trying to turn into ...

When it comes to striking a balance between the religious rights of government employees and the government’s duty to avoid Establishment Clause violations, “context matters.” In Kennedy v. Bremerton ...

When a legislative body grants religious groups more liberty than the Supreme Court has interpreted the Free Exercise Clause to require, the government potentially violates the Establishment Clause, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the run-up to Dobbs, I identified many areas of the law that abortion had distorted. Among these epicycles were stare decisis, freedom of speech, facial challenges, the tiers of scrutiny, ...

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 ...

One of the big legal issues facing our country is where and how we are going to draw the line between religion and the government. And church and state arguably got a bit closer this week — before the ...

Texas wants to post the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Other states want to bring religion back to schools and public spaces. It ought to be a no-brainer — they cannot do that. The ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...