Early commentary on today’s denials comes from Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal, Garrett Epps of The Atlantic, Ilya Shapiro at Cato at Liberty, the National Constitution Center staff at the Constitution Daily, Ruthann Robson at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Ryan Anderson at The Daily Signal, Nate Silver and Allison McCann at FiveThirtyEight, Alison Sacriponte at Jurist, George Zornick at The Nation, Amy Davidson at The New Yorker, Mark Joseph Stern at Slate (also here), Sahil Kapur… [read post]

The ministerial exception gives religious organizations freedom to discriminate any way they want, leaving the plaintiffs without any legal recourse, even if racial discrimination is at stake.In 2011, as the Supreme Court was deciding its first, 2012 case, my UNLV colleague, Ian Bartrum, wrote an article called Religion and Race: The Ministerial Exception Reexamined (2011). [read post]

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The committee will hear testimony from Ian Brzezinski, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; Dr. [read post]