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Church and State
June 1, 2023
Prem Thakker
“We Have to Bring Religion Back Into Our Country,” Says Sexual Abuser Donald Trump
It’s not clear when exactly Trump thinks religion left our country.
May 30, 2023
Magazine
Linda K. Wertheimer
Inside the Christian Legal Crusade to Revive School Prayer
Buoyed by the right-wing Supreme Court, Christian groups are laying the groundwork for public schools to veer back toward the 1960s.
April 21, 2023
Tori Otten
Texas Republicans Pass Bill Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Classroom
Separation of church and state or nah?
July 5, 2022
Charles McCrary
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Leslie Ribovich
The Supreme Court’s Holy War Against Public Schools
The conservative bloc’s recent religious rulings went much further than merely obliterating the firewall between church and state.
October 22, 2019
Matt Ford
Bill Barr’s First Epistle to the Heathens
The attorney general believes the Christian hegemony is essential to American democracy, and wants to leverage state power to uphold it.
June 27, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Supreme Court’s Incredible Privileging of Religion
In obliging the state to directly aid Trinity Lutheran and other churches, the Court is allowing the religious right to have their cake and eat it, too.
April 18, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Neil Gorsuch Is Poised to Swing a Landmark Church-State Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could tip the balance of power towards religion over secularism.
June 18, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Separation of Church and State Is Still Alive—for Children, Anyway
Why did the Supreme Court decline to hear Elmbrook School District v. Doe?
November 7, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Antonin Scalia Just Cracked the Door to State-Sanctioned Prayer
Religious supremacy may be on the rise at the Supreme Court
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