Despite a new state law allowing Texas school districts to offer courses in Bible literacy, the Houston Chronicle reports that, faced with the daunting task of actually administering one, schools have been "slow to add" them. Local districts' slow...
Writing at USAToday earlier this week, former BJC staffer Buzz Thomas explains "why we should care about cases like Salazar v. Buono." Citizens should be able to hold their government accountable. Is this not a basic premise of our constitutional...
A million-dollar government grant to a Chicago church for repairs has been cancelled by the Illinois Commerce Department. Activist Rob Sherman reports (via Religion Clause): I filed suit in State Court to block the grant, just days after the Grant Agreement was...
The First Amendment Center's Tony Mauro offers this on-target analysis of yesterday's Supreme Court oral argument in Salazar v. Buono. Justices seemed ready to accept the law as a solution, though some members of the Court voiced concern that even after the...
The transcript of today's oral argument in Salazar v. Buono is now available online here (pdf). In many respects the dialogue sounded more like a Civil Procedure class than one on the First Amendment's church-state provisions. Few of the Justices...
AP reports that the Supreme Court "appeared divided between conservatives and liberals Wednesday over whether a cross on federal park land in California violates the Constitution." Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in these cases, said nothing...
