Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

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 ...

CNN sounded the alarm over the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of religious schools in the case of Carson v. Makin on Tuesday, fretting that the Court was now "elevating" religious liberty over "free ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump sits at a desk as he and religious leaders listen to a musical performance before Trump signs an executive ...

The Supreme Court has long recognized that acknowledgment of religion’s role in American history and culture does not constitute establishment. The Ten Commandments occupy a unique position in this ...

Via the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty’s blog, Elena Kagan answered a few questions on the Establishment Clause yesterday. In light of past indications that she has leaned toward more ...

Last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson caused a stir by stating in an interview that "the separation of church and state is a misnomer." Johnson was responding to a skeptical interviewer on CNBC who ...

On Wednesday, February 25, the Supreme Court decided Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum, an easy and insignificant free speech case. Unfortunately, the Court sidestepped the profound Establishment ...

I’m teaching an undergraduate course on the mass mediation of religious beliefs, and the students are taking an interdisciplinary look at how new media technology’s ubiquity has changed (in big and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's jumbled views of the Establishment Clause threaten to render secularism the country's de facto faith. It is time the court adopted a standard that does not punish the ...