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Hate Speech And The First Amendment, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2017

Hate Speech And The First Amendment, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


This Is Why We Protect Hate Speech, Alan E. Garfield Aug 2017

This Is Why We Protect Hate Speech, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Reprinted in Newsday, the Bangor Daily News, the Virginian Pilot, the Morning Call.


The Blessing Of Separating Church And State, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2017

The Blessing Of Separating Church And State, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Value Of Valor: Soldiers’ Tenets Should Guide All Americans, Alan E. Garfield May 2017

Value Of Valor: Soldiers’ Tenets Should Guide All Americans, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Who's The Check On Authoritarianism In The Whitehouse?, Alan E. Garfield Feb 2017

Who's The Check On Authoritarianism In The Whitehouse?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court's Brain Teaser, Alan E. Garfield Jan 2017

The Supreme Court's Brain Teaser, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Trump's Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2016

Trump's Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Some Advice For President-Elect Donald Trump, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2016

Some Advice For President-Elect Donald Trump, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Test Your Knowledge Of Church And State, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2016

Test Your Knowledge Of Church And State, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Equality: A Test On Equal Protection, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2016

Equality: A Test On Equal Protection, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Implied Vs. Fundamental Freedom: A Test, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2016

Implied Vs. Fundamental Freedom: A Test, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


A Quiz On Federal Power And States’ Rights, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2016

A Quiz On Federal Power And States’ Rights, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Conundrums, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2016

Constitutional Conundrums, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Make It Count: Your Vote Is Vital In Determining The Future Of The Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2016

Make It Count: Your Vote Is Vital In Determining The Future Of The Supreme Court, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Law And Religion Collide: Supreme Court Punts High-Profile Case Concerning The Legality Of Ensuring Female Contraception Insurance In The Face Of Religious Objections, Alan E. Garfield May 2016

Law And Religion Collide: Supreme Court Punts High-Profile Case Concerning The Legality Of Ensuring Female Contraception Insurance In The Face Of Religious Objections, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Advice And Consent: The Power Struggle Behind Merrick Garland’S Supreme Court Nomination, Alan E. Garfield Apr 2016

Advice And Consent: The Power Struggle Behind Merrick Garland’S Supreme Court Nomination, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Editorial discussing nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.


Labor Unions And Corporations Both Play Their Vital Roles, Alan E. Garfield Jan 2016

Labor Unions And Corporations Both Play Their Vital Roles, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Discussion of Supreme Court case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.


Not All Black And White, Alan E. Garfield Dec 2015

Not All Black And White, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of “Standing” Is Anything But Boring, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2015

The Impact Of “Standing” Is Anything But Boring, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Is It Time To Stop Tinkering With The Machinery Of Death?, Alan E. Garfield Oct 2015

Is It Time To Stop Tinkering With The Machinery Of Death?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


All American Citizens Fall Under ‘We The People,’ But Who Is Really Included?, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2015

All American Citizens Fall Under ‘We The People,’ But Who Is Really Included?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


George Will’S Supreme Court History Is Dubious, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2015

George Will’S Supreme Court History Is Dubious, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Will ‘Rule Of Five’ End Marriage Debate?, Alan E. Garfield Jul 2015

Will ‘Rule Of Five’ End Marriage Debate?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


When Should The Supreme Court Justices ‘Decide’ A Right?, Alan E. Garfield Apr 2015

When Should The Supreme Court Justices ‘Decide’ A Right?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Are Vanity License Plates Considered Government Speech Or Public Speech?, Alan E. Garfield Mar 2015

Are Vanity License Plates Considered Government Speech Or Public Speech?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


And The Wall Comes Tumbling Down: How The Supreme Court Is Striking The Wrong Balance Between Majority And Minority Rights In Church And State Cases, Alan Garfield Dec 2014

And The Wall Comes Tumbling Down: How The Supreme Court Is Striking The Wrong Balance Between Majority And Minority Rights In Church And State Cases, Alan Garfield

Alan E Garfield

One of the Supreme Court’s primary responsibilities in church and state cases is to strike the right balance between majority and minority rights. But in two high profile cases decided in its last term, the Supreme Court struck the wrong balance in both. In Town of Greece v. Galloway, concerning prayers at the beginning of a small town’s board meetings, the Court was too deferential to the religious majority’s preferred prayer practice and inadequately sensitive to the practice’s impact on religious minorities. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., concerning the right of for-profit corporations to be exempted from the …


Supreme Court Religious Freedom Case Should Give Us Pride, Alan E. Garfield Oct 2014

Supreme Court Religious Freedom Case Should Give Us Pride, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Are ‘We The People’ Meeting Our Responsibilities?, Alan E. Garfield Sep 2014

Are ‘We The People’ Meeting Our Responsibilities?, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Is Contraception Mandate ‘No Big Deal?’, Alan E. Garfield Jun 2014

Is Contraception Mandate ‘No Big Deal?’, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Here’S Some Malarkey: Judges Are Umpires, Alan E. Garfield May 2014

Here’S Some Malarkey: Judges Are Umpires, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.