A federal judge struck down Arkansas’s law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments on the basis that it establishes a state religion. My question is: What religion, exactly, do ...

A lively oral argument filled the en banc courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans, to address this simple question: may states require the ...

Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep theory – behind our nation’s most consequential constitutional decisions. On ...