Last December, the Supreme Court ruled (in Boumediene) that Guantanamo prisoners may file suit claiming a denial of their constitutional rights in the facility. That important decision affirmed the principle that the Constitution's guarantee of fundamental...
As the year draws to a close, the Baptist Joint Committee asked me to take a look back at 2009 and recap the most important church-state stories of the year. I’ve had the good fortune to survey religious liberty Web sites and news items daily here at the BJC’s Blog...
In Redding, California, a petition drive is underway for legislation that would require schools to provide Christmas music to students. The initiative would require schools to provide children the opportunity to listen to or perform Christmas carols, and would subject...
Far be it from me to presume to speak on the particulars of European church-state law (it's all I can do to try and keep up with religious liberty development in American courts), but I couldn't help notice Friday's Wall Street Journal op-ed by the Becket...
Writing at Slate, the always interesting Dahlia Lithwick takes a look at the mostly unspoken charge that the religion of Supreme Court justices improperly effects their decisions. Do we hear so little about this issue (specifically, the number of Catholic justices...
Via Religion Clause, Representative Henry Brown (R-SC) introduced HR 951 this week. The bill would "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the symbols and traditions of Christmas should be protected for use by those who celebrate...
