In his latest Justia blog post, Illinois law dean Vikram David Amar joins UC Davis law professor emeritus Alan Brownstein to comment on a largely unacknowledged clash between religious accommodations and exemptions on the one hand, and core free speech principles which the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized, on the other. Amar and Brownstein describe this apparent conflict and suggest that the Court begin to resolve the conflict when it decides two cases later this term presenting the question of the scope of the “ministerial exception.”
Read the full post at verdict.justia.com.