In two cases this term, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that there’s little room for the separation of church and state in its regressive constitutional ...

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

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our ...

The genius of the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is found in the balance each provides the other. Ideally, the Free Exercise Clause protects and maintains our ...

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

The 40ft tall Christian cross, crumbling though it is, will remain in its traffic circle in Bladensburg, Md., because it’s been there for a long time and removing it would make people angry. The ...

In May 2025, the Supreme Court handed down a 4–4 split decision in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond. That deadlock left intact a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court that denied ...

A proposal to post the Ten Commandments in Kern County Superintendent of Schools' campuses will be considered Nov. 13 when the Board of Education meets. The proposal was introduced at this month’s ...

The 1st Amendment, and the separation of church and state, America’s best idea, is at risk as never before. The notion that church and state should be discrete entities was unprecedented when the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts’ court is actively eroding the separation of church and state, breaking with centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence. This past term, the U.S. Supreme Court further ...