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...
Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of the Mojave National Preserve cross, a question about not only government-sponsored religious monuments but potentially about the general ability of citizens to bring Establishment Clause claims when the state...
ABP's Bob Allen updates the story in which Fort Oglethorpe, GA cheerleaders were barred from carrying signs with religious messages on a high school football field during games. The citizen, Donna Jackson, who initially called in concerns to the principal over the...
A New Hampshire judge has thrown out Michael Newdow's latest lawsuit challening the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has filed a lawsuit charging former Navy chaplain...
Today's Washington Post looks at the upcoming Supreme Court term and sees the potential for big changes in First Amendment jurisprudence, thanks to a more "muscular" Chief Justice, and the replacement of Justice O'Connor – Samuel Alito –...
