{"title":"Scalia’s Slip","authors":"Owen Fiss","doi":"10.1086/718788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718788","url":null,"abstract":"Antonin Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court in September 1986 and served in that position until he died in February 2016. Over the course of his career he achieved great prominence andwas admired bymany.Onhis death a law schoolwas named in his honor and in 2018 hewas posthumously awarded the PresidentialMedal of Freedom.His slip occurred not in the kind of social interactions that Freud envisaged, but rather in an opinion of his that appeared in the official reports of the Supreme Court. All the Justices are served by a number of law clerks and it is fair to assume that the final version of this particular opinion was carefully reviewed by one of his law clerks. It is also fair to assume that all, or at least some, of his colleagues carefully read the opinion before it was formally issued. One, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined it. Justice Scalia issued this opinion in 2014 in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (known by the acronym BAMN ). This case arose when the state constitution ofMichigan was amended to prohibit publicly financed universities of the state from","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"2021 1","pages":"375 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait","authors":"L. Epstein, E. Posner","doi":"10.1086/719348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719348","url":null,"abstract":"The Roberts Court has ruled in favor of religious organizations far more frequently than its predecessors—over 81% of the time, compared to about 50% for all previous eras since 1953. In most of these cases, the winning religion was a mainstream Christian organization, whereas in the past pro-religion outcomes more frequently favored minority or marginal religious organizations. A statistical analysis suggests that this transformation is largely the result of changes in the Court’s personnel: a majority of Roberts Court justices are ideologically conservative and religiously devout—a significant break from the past. We also explore other possible explanations. The Roberts Court has handed down a number of decisions that suggest a new approach to Court’s religion jurisprudence. The religion clauses of the First Amendment were once understood to provide weak but meaningful protection for non-mainstream religions from discrimination by governments that favored mainstream Christian organizations, practices, or values. The religion clauses provided little protection for mainstream religions—indeed, under the establishment clause, mainstream religion’s influence over government policy was restricted. Under the Roberts Court, the religion clauses have increasingly been used to protect mainstream Christian values or organizations that are under threat from secular laws or liberal constitutional protections. Or so it has been argued. Some legal scholars have denounced this apparent turn to the right, while others see only small changes that incrementally move the jurisprudence in a direction more faithful to constitutional values.2 It is always hazardous to claim a “transformation” in the law, especially in medias res. Ideological or jurisprudential disagreements can be lost in the complexities of the facts. The justices 1 Lee Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis; Eric Posner is the Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair at the University of Chicago. Epstein thanks the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Washington University for supporting her research on judicial behavior. We thank Aziz Huq for helpful comments, and Sima Biondi, Lina Dayem, Kelly Gregg, Kenny Mok, and Candice Yandem, for research assistance. The project’s website (http://epstein.wustl.edu/research/ReligionInCourt.html) will house a full replication archive, including the data and documentation necessary to reproduce all results. 2 See Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman, Symposium: The unfolding revolution in the jurisprudence of the religion clauses (SCOTUSblog, Aug 6 2020), archived at https://perma.cc/43BS-KQAS; Richard Garnett, Symposium: Religious freedom and the Roberts court’s doctrinal clean-up (Scotusblog, Aug 7 2020), archived at https://perma.cc/7P5E-HP4Z; Kim Colby, Symposium: Free exercise, RFRA and the need","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"2021 1","pages":"315 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45239804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reference Re Genetic Non-Discrimination Act: How to Make Space for Some Certainty","authors":"Hoi L. Kong","doi":"10.60082/2563-8505.1425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84307982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Dominant Tides: Desgagnés Transport Inc. v. Wärtsilä Canada Inc. and the Growing Acceptance of Provincial Jurisdiction in Maritime Matters","authors":"S. Hanley, Sean Pierce","doi":"10.60082/2563-8505.1419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76337689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Regents and the Political Significance of Law","authors":"Cristina M. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1086/715475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"2020 1","pages":"1 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43764852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sidestepping the Charter, Again: Muting the Right to Habeas Corpus in Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v. Chhina","authors":"Jared Will","doi":"10.60082/2563-8505.1415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81508816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual Orientation and the Dynamics of Discrimination","authors":"D. Strauss","doi":"10.1086/715551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"2020 1","pages":"203 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42021860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction – 2019 Constitutional Cases at the Supreme Court: Up Close and in Person","authors":"S. Lawrence","doi":"10.60082/2563-8505.1410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46006,"journal":{"name":"Supreme Court Review","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86969217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}