Last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson caused a stir by stating in an interview that "the separation of church and state is a misnomer." Johnson was responding to a skeptical interviewer on CNBC who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump sits at a desk as he and religious leaders listen to a musical performance before Trump signs an executive ...

Thanks very much, again, to The Volokh Conspiracy for inviting me to blog about my recent paper on Justice Breyer's decisions and votes in Establishment Clause cases. In this post, I sketch a second ...

I’m teaching an undergraduate course on the mass mediation of religious beliefs, and the students are taking an interdisciplinary look at how new media technology’s ubiquity has changed (in big and ...

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 ...

In Felix v. City of Bloomfield (D. NM Aug. 7, 2014), the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico found that the display of a five-foot, granite Ten Commandments monument outside City Hall ...

The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

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

On June 5, Oklahoma voted to allow a new Christian charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, to benefit from taxpayer funding on par with non-sectarian public schools. Activists ...

The First Amendment reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Known as the establishment clause, scholars generally agree it points to the founders’ desire ...

Texas wants to post the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Other states want to bring religion back to schools and public spaces. It ought to be a no-brainer — they cannot do that. The ...