Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh appeared hungry Monday to formally jettison a 1971 religion test for violations of the First Amendment's establishment clause. "Is Lemon in this case?" asked ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Our hands are tied,” said a federal appeals court in Pensacola, Florida. The court ruled on Sept. 17 that a historic World War II-era memorial cross must come down, 75 years after its installation in ...
On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the historic Bladensburg Memorial Cross – also known as the Peace Cross – could remain on public property in Bladensburg, Maryland. The Court voted 7-2 in ...
Protecting Religious Liberty from Class Actions? Skrmetti Ruling—Part 2 Audio By Carbonatix 1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in ...