Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh appeared hungry Monday to formally jettison a 1971 religion test for violations of the First Amendment's establishment clause. "Is Lemon in this case?" asked ...

American Legion v. American Humanist Association. There’s something attractive in the names of the parties in the Supreme Court’s recent decision on church and state. Both organizations, the veterans’ ...

On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the historic Bladensburg Memorial Cross – also known as the Peace Cross – could remain on public property in Bladensburg, Maryland. The Court voted 7-2 in ...

1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman concocts an ahistorical and highly malleable test for Establishment Clause ...