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Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The National Catholic Reporter Article While House Redistricting May Keep Gop In Place, Real Battle Is Within The Party On October 13., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the National Catholic Reporter article While House redistricting may keep GOP in place, real battle is within the party on October 13.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The New York Times Article Among Justices, Considering A Divide Not Of Gender Or Politics, But Of Beliefs , July 11, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in The New York Times article Among Justices, Considering a Divide Not of Gender or Politics, but of Beliefs on July 11.

Freedom Of Religion And The Freedom Of The Church, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett posted a short essay called Freedom of Religion and the Freedom of the Church on the Liberty Law Forum on August 3, 2014. Liberty Forum is a platform for the discussion of the legal and philosophical principles that inform and govern a free people.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The South Bend Tribune Article What Do Recent Botched Executions Mean For Death Penalty? On August 31., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the South Bend Tribune article What do recent botched executions mean for death penalty? on August 31.

“As a result of this focus, some minds may change,” said Richard Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on capital punishment. “I think it’s still too soon to say if this will be the catalyst for a new abolition movement.”

Rick Garnett Was Quoted By The Associated Press Article "Justices' New Term Has Expectations On Gay Unions" On October 5, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted by the Associated Press article "Justices' new term has expectations on gay unions" on October 5. Last term, the court bitterly divided over the religious rights of family-owned corporations that objected to paying for women’s contraceptives under President Barack Obama’s health care law. This case appears likely to unite the court, said University of Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett. “I think there’s every reason to expect agreement among the justices that Arkansas hasn’t even come close to satisfying the burden,” Garnett said.

Symposium: Religious Pluralism, Civic Unity, And The Judicial Role, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett posted, as a guest author, to the SCOTUSblog Special Feature: Legislative prayer symposium Legislative prayer symposium the article Symposium: Religious pluralism, civic unity, and the judicial role on May 8.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Abc News In Supreme Court Upholds Prayer At Town Meetings On May 5., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the ABC News in Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Town Meetings on May 5.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Washington Post Article Experts Say Botched Execution In Oklahoma Is Unlikely To Bring Big Death-Penalty Changes On April 30., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the Washington Post article Experts say botched execution in Oklahoma is unlikely to bring big death-penalty changes on April 30. “I’m skeptical that the courts would ever invalidate lethal injection as a general matter,’’ said Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who served as a clerk to William H. Rehnquist when he was chief justice of the United States. “I don’t think they’re going to intervene in such an aggressive way. They’ve been trying to intervene around the edges.’’

Quoted In The Christian Science Monitor Article And Video, "Botched Oklahoma Execution Shakes Even Death Penalty Supporters", Richard Garnett

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“I don’t expect that this one incident will be in itself the straw that breaks the camel’s back and leads to the abolition of the death penalty, but clearly it was deeply troubling, and clearly a lot of people are going to be troubled by it,” says Rick Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

“Most Americans who support the death penalty still believe that it needs to be administered in a way that’s humane, and that’s possible, but difficult, to do,” he adds. “The conversation about what we the people are going to do will be …

Rick Garnett Appeared On Abc World News With Diane Sawyer Prayer In America On May 5., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett appeared on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer Prayer in America on May 5.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Cnn Article Oklahoma’S Botched Lethal Injection Marks New Front In Battle Over Executions On May 1., Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the CNN article Oklahoma’s botched lethal injection marks new front in battle over executions on May 1. The botched Oklahoma execution "will not only cause officials in that state to review carefully their execution procedures and methods, it will also almost prompt many Americans across the country to rethink the wisdom, and the morality, of capital punishment," said Richard W. Garnett, a former Supreme Court law clerk who now teaches criminal and constitutional law at the University of Notre Dame. "The Constitution allows capital punishment in some cases, and so the decision whether to use …

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Religion News Service Article Supreme Court Approves Sectarian Prayer At Public Meetings On May 5, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the Religion News Service article Supreme Court approves sectarian prayer at public meetings on May 5. But University of Notre Dame law professor Richard W. Garnett, who specializes in church/state relations and religious freedom, called the decision correct and unsurprising. “What might be surprising, though, is that four justices dissented. It would have been a dramatic and controversial move … to rule that legislative prayers are necessarily unconstitutional,” Garnett said. Just because sectarian prayers are constitutional, Garnett said, doesn’t mean that policies like those of the town of Greece “are wise or welcoming.”

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Npr Story Prayers Before Town Hall Meetings Are Constitutional, High Court Finds On May 5, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the NPR story Prayers Before Town Hall Meetings Are Constitutional, High Court Finds on May 5.

University of Notre Dame Professor of Law and religious freedom expert Richard W. Garnett says that today's decision doesn't change the way this kind of prayer has been viewed historically. "It would have been a dramatic and controversial move — a move that the [Obama] Administration, among others, argued against — to rule that legislative prayers are necessarily unconstitutional," Garnett tells us in an email. "And, none of the Justices endorsed such a departure from past practices and rulings. …

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In • The Columbus Dispatch, Obamacare, Religion Are Focus Of Arguments Today Before Justices, March 25, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in The Columbus Dispatch, Obamacare, religion are focus of arguments today before justices, March 25

“In the real world, the number of corporations able to invoke (a religious exemption) is especially small,” said Richard Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In • National Catholic Register, Hobby Lobby Has Its Day In Court March 26, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in National Catholic Register, Hobby Lobby Has Its Day in Court March 26

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Religion News Service Article Does Hobby Lobby Have Religious Rights? The Supreme Court Will Decide, March 18, 2014, Richard Garnett

Richard W Garnett

On March 18, Rick Garnett was quoted in the Religion News Service article Does Hobby Lobby have religious rights? The Supreme Court will decide. Notre Dame Law School professor Rick Garnett, who writes about religious freedom, said the court may well agree that corporations have religious rights, but he also suggests that such an outcome won’t be as momentous as many assume. “It doesn’t mean every single business is going to be invoking RFRA to get out of regulations it doesn’t like,” he said.

Rick Garnett Was In 3 Questions Facing The Supreme Court In Contraception Case Via Abc News On March 20, 2014, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was in 3 Questions Facing the Supreme Court in Contraception Case via ABC News on March 20.

Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The New York Times Article Contraception Ruling Could Have Reach Far Beyond Women’S Rights On March 24, 2014, Richard Garnett

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Rick was quoted in the New York Times article Contraception Ruling Could Have Reach Far Beyond Women’s Rights on March 24. Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame who filed a brief on the other side, said that overstated matters. “The prediction that a win for Hobby Lobby — a case that is not at all about discrimination or denial of service and instead is about deeply held views regarding the sanctity of life — would be a serious setback for gay rights is, in my view, unfounded,” he said.

What Is The Mission Of The Catholic Law School?, Richard Garnett

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Article "What is the Mission of the Catholic Law School?" by Rick Garnett in the Irish Rover. The article is part of a talk given by Prof. Garnett.

Rick Garnett Authored An Op-Ed Article "Solidarity, Not A Scolding" In The National Review Online On February 5, 2014, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett authored an op-ed article "Solidarity, Not a Scolding" in the National Review Online on February 5.

Rick Garnett Quoted In The L.A. Times Article Single Mothers-To-Be And Gays Fight Firings From Catholic School Jobs On February 7, 2014, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was also quoted in the L.A. Times article Single mothers-to-be and gays fight firings from Catholic school jobs on February 7. Rick Garnett, director of the church, state and society program at Notre Dame Law School, backed Haggarty’s assertion. "The Christa Dias case came out wrong, because all teachers -- whether they are teaching about religion or about computers -- can be expected by a Catholic school to model the values and support the mission of the school,” Garrnett told The Times. “To me, it’s no different than expecting the spokesperson for the Green Party to support the …

The Conscience Of A Judicial Conservative, Richard Garnett

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The Conscience of a Judicial Conservative – (Opinion: by Richard Garnett) The Wall Street Journal – October 23, 2012

The late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died in September 2005 after a full, consequential and in some ways controversial life. From modest and Midwestern circumstances, he distinguished himself in school, law practice and public service. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court during turbulent times and was for many years a powerful and prescient critic of what he saw as a too-liberal court's innovations and excesses.

Is Religious Freedom In America At Risk?" - Panelist At Institute For Law And Religion Debate By Univ San Diego School Of Law - October 31, 2012 (Itunes Video), Richard Garnett

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Is Religious Freedom in America at Risk?" - Panelist at Institute for Law and Religion Debate by USD School of Law - October 31, 2012 (iTunes video)

What Does Separation Of Church And State Mean? Guest On Pbs Constitution Usa With Peter Sagal. (Video), Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was a guest on What does separation of church and state mean? on PBS Constitution USA with Peter Sagal. (video clip)

Simple Justice: Kids Deserve School Choice – (Opinion: By Richard Garnett) Public Discourse – February 4, 2013, Richard Garnett

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Simple Justice: Kids Deserve School Choice – (Opinion: by Richard Garnett) Public Discourse – February 4, 2013

Who Gets Religious Exemptions And Why - (Guest) Npr Talk Of The Nation - February 21, 2013, Richard Garnett

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Who Gets Religious Exemptions And Why - (Guest) NPR Talk of the Nation - February 21, 2013

Under revised rules of the Affordable Care Act, religious groups can be exempt from paying their employees' insurance coverage for birth control. Religious exemptions are nearly as old as the nation and have been on the rise in recent decades.

Is Anthony Kennedy 'The First Gay Justice'? (Quotes: Richard Garnett) Cnn - June 28, 2013, Richard Garnett

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Is Anthony Kennedy 'the first gay justice'? (Quotes: Richard Garnett) CNN article by Bill Mears, June 28, 2013 "Although Justice Kennedy's opinion explicitly states that it is confined to same-sex marriages that have been recognized by states, it contains reasoning and language that will certainly be used, in later cases, to argue that legal recognition of same-sex marriage by all states is constitutionally required," said University of Notre Dame law professor Richard W. Garnett, a past clerk to former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. "Almost certainly, and fairly soon, that argument will be presented squarely to the court."

A Conservative Supreme Court Swerves To Avoid Easy Definition (Quotes: Richard Garnett) Washington Post, June 27, 2013, Richard Garnett

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A conservative Supreme Court swerves to avoid easy definition (Quotes: Richard Garnett) Washington Post article by Robert Barnes, June 27, 2013 This year was Kennedy’s term, partly because he is more moderate than his colleagues on both the left and the right, but also because he holds “a combination of views that are idiosyncratic,” said Richard Garnett, a Notre Dame law professor. They include a strong belief in state’s rights, an aversion to racial classifications and a somewhat libertarian view on issues of privacy, Garnett said. Kennedy has written the court’s most important gay rights decisions. That jurisprudence fit perfectly …

Supreme Court Extends Gay-Marriage Rights With Two Rulings (Quotes: Richard Garnett) Npr, June 26, 2013, Richard Garnett

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Supreme Court Extends Gay-Marriage Rights With Two Rulings (Quotes: Richard Garnett) NPR, June 26, 2013 When the issue finally does come back to the high court, there is little doubt that the language in the DOMA case about equality and discrimination will help frame the issue, observes Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School. "A lot of that language is going to be really helpful to people who are challenging traditional marriage laws," he says.

Op-Ed: Worth Worrying About? Same-Sex Marriage & Religious Freedom - Commonweal, July 17, 2013, Richard Garnett

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Op-ed: Worth Worrying About? Same-Sex Marriage & Religious Freedom in Commonweal The late-June release of the Supreme Court’s more controversial or culturally salient decisions has become a major media event—like the Oscars, or the election-day tallying of the midnight ballots from Dixville Notch. Refreshing, if archaic, rules prohibiting cameras and live broadcasting from the Court cause tens of thousands to glue themselves to celebrity law-reporters’ Twitter feeds and the SCOTUSBlog webcast.