…forty scholarly articles and chapters on church-state matters, and he regularly collaborates on amicus curiae briefs at the US Supreme Court. Recommended Citation Green, Steven K. “Trump’s Problem with Race…
“Self-Defense and Human Rights: David Little Responds Part 2”
…fundamental rights to religion—Little variously calls the right of self-defense itself ‘foundational,’ ‘supreme,’ ‘the greatest’, the fulcrum of all other rights…the fountain through which other rights flow.” Witte continues: “And…
“Constitution Day 2020: Human Dignity and the U.S. Presidential Election” by Randall A. Poole
…Dignity and Political Entitlements,” 378. (The three supreme ideals or “transcendentals” are truth, beauty, and the good.) In simplest terms, we might say that the source of human dignity is…
“Does Biblical Literacy Enrich Constitutional Literacy? The Bible’s Forgotten Influence on the American Constitutional Tradition” by Daniel L. Dreisbach
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“Respecting the Needs of Worshippers is Essential to Containing COVID-19” by Robin Fretwell Wilson
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“Slaughterhouses as Sites of Exception” by Joanna Smith
…– the ragged threads of a competing logic are visible. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Chief Justice downplayed the importance of coronavirus outbreaks in her state, saying that it was just meatpacking…
“The COVID Crisis as a Crisis of Trust” by Brett G. Scharffs
…Partisans on both sides are behaving in ways that make it difficult to trust even the integrity of our voting system. A contentious Supreme Court nomination reminds us of the…
“The Coronavirus, the Compelling State Interest in Health, and Religious Autonomy” by W. Cole Durham, Jr.
…claims arising in the pandemic context is simply to hold, with the Supreme Court in Employment Division v. Smith, that so long as a health policy is neutral and general,…
“Fratelli tutti: A Marvelous Gift of Pope Francis” by Rafael Domingo
…our hearts sufficiently, the supreme head of the Catholic Church warns, if we turn our backs on human misery, so “caught up as we are with our own needs (that)…
“Pope Francis’ Politics of Love” by Patrick Hornbeck
…teaching on the subject of the death penalty has been on the minds of U.S. legal commentators as the now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court got her start…

