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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 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 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. …

Top Court Won't Block Town Prayers, Richard Garnett

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Contribution to CNN Opinion by Rick Garnett. Richard Garnett says predicting court decisions is risky, but the odds are the court won't overturn public meeting prayers.

Board Meeting Prayer Bound For Supreme Court In Church-State Case, Richard Garnett

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ABC News quoted Rick Garnett in the article by Ariane de Vogue. Richard Garnett, an expert on church-state issues at the Notre Dame Law School says, “At the heart of this new case is whether the court should stick with a relatively bright-line rule that treats legislative prayers as presumptively permissible, given their long use in our country, or whether the court should move to more of an all-things-considered inquiry that treats such prayers like Christmas displays and the like.”

Legislative Prayer Gets Supreme Court Review, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the Associated Press article by MARK SHERMAN

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Richard Garnett, a University of Notre Dame law professor and former Supreme Court clerk, said it is likely that the court will reverse the appeals court and that a narrow ruling of the sort sought by the administration could cause some liberal justices to join their conservative colleagues.

But because the case can be resolved narrowly, Garnett said it probably is not one the justices will use to order judges to …

Supreme Court To Hear New Case On Religion In Public Life, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in the Washington Post article.

Against this “messy” backdrop, said Richard Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame, the court’s view on legislative prayer “is actually one of the clearer areas in the court’s Establishment Clause” jurisprudence.

Just Like A Prayer?, Richard Garnett

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Rick Garnett was quoted in The American Prospect article Just Like a Prayer? on November 1, 2013 Quotations below: But Rick Garnett, a professor of law and political science at the University of Notre Dame, says that’s a stretch, even for Kennedy. “Sure, there are children who come to municipal government meetings, but there are a whole lot of tourists and children who come to Congress,” he says. “I don’t think the court will want to take that vague idea of peer pressure as coercion and expand it beyond the school context.” From Garnett’s perspective, this is a good thing. …