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Though the principle of separation of church and state is a valuable one—embodied in the establishment clause of the United States Constitution—funding Davey’s study of theology would not have been a government endorsement of religion. Rather, government??s exclusion of scholarship funds for theology majors actively and unnecessarily burdens religion. If the state had kept Davey’s scholarship, it would have been treating religion as equal to any other pursuit. There would be an inherent pluralism in such a system. Non-religious and religious studies would receive...
Indeed, a totalitarian government??s domestic savagery is indissolubly connected to the external menace posed by its rulers. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, we had world-famous dissident-intellectuals such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov to remind us of this. It’s a lesson worth remembering as we ponder the awful dilemma of what to do about North Korea...
Bloomberg Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, who spearheaded the effort to file the HLS brief last month, agreed that the Justice Department’s choice not to respond to the faculty’s argument indicated a substantial weakness in the government??s case...
With federal lawyers remaining tight-lipped, Tuesday’s brief offers a rare glimpse of how the government??s legal strategy is developing...
...That’s quite a bold pronouncement,” Rosenkranz said, adding that the government??s articulation of a more extreme viewpoint Tuesday bolsters FAIR’s chances for success...