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The government should not be in the business of telling religious communities who to hire or fire as religious leaders. That seems straightforward, right? Imagine if a court ordered a Catholic church to hire an Episcopal priest. That is a clear violation...

By all accounts, no one factor was more responsible for adoption of the Establishment Clause (the provision of the First Amendment prohibiting government establishment of religion) than grassroots opposition to the practice of using government coffers...

The Supreme Court may soon add another key First Amendment case to its docket — this time touching on the amendment’s lesser-known rights of assembly and petition. First Amendment scholars and advocates have filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting...

The biggest decision the Supreme Court makes this year may turn out to be its pivot to allow real-time audio broadcasts of its arguments for the first time in its history. Typically, the audio recordings of the court’s oral arguments are only released...