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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

American Legion v. American Humanist Association. There’s something attractive in the names of the parties in the Supreme Court’s recent decision on church and state. Both organizations, the veterans’ ...

There’s something attractive in the party names in the Supreme Court’s decision on the relationship between government and religion: American Legion v. American Humanist Association. Both ...

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 ...

Oral arguments about the Maryland public memorial start this week. Must a large Christian cross commemorating soldiers who died in World War I, which has been in place on public land for 94 years, be ...

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 ...

In another bombshell opinion, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has upended the way it understands and applies the clause of the Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion.