Melissa Rogers makes the case that confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court could be a victory for the free exercise of religion. Noting that current Justices as divergent in their views as Stevens and Scalia both agree that government has the right to burden...
Without a judicial record to analyze, Elena Kagan's views on constitutional issues are something of a mystery, with perhaps more indirect than direct evidence at hand. What we do have are documents from her time in the Clinton White House – years that...
At the Washington Post, Aseem Shukla writes about the disturbing level of religious expectation in American politics today. Some elected officials that grew up in other faiths nonetheless seem effectively required to be Christians. And even those that have been in the...
South Dakota Pastor H. Wayne Williams has gone all in for the dubious cause of pulpit campaigning. First, he was defiant over IRS regulations prohibiting candidate endorsement, then he "backpedaled" after AU filed a complaint. Now, he's fully on board,...
AP reports on emails written by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan recently released by the Clinton Library (browse her emails here). Included in the correspondence is her expression of concern over the politics of proposed religious freedom legislation. In one e-mail,...
Over the weekend, Louisiana's Senate voted 30-6 to approve changes made in the House to a religious freedom act similar to other RFRA bills around the country. Now headed to Governor Jindal's desk for his signature, the measure requires the state to have a...
