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June 27, 2019: Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’T Believe In God, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Believe in God“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 23, 2019: All The Justices Get Religion Wrong Again, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “All the Justices Get Religion Wrong Again“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 22, 2019: What The Supreme Court Should Have Said, But Didn't, In The Maryland Cross Case, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “What the Supreme Court Should Have Said, But Didn't, in the Maryland Cross Case“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 15, 2019: The Age Of Pessimism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Age of Pessimism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 8, 2019: The No-Prosecution Pledge, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The No-Prosecution Pledge“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Brief Of Amicus Curiae 290 Criminal Law And Mental Health Law Professors In Support Of Petitioner's Request For Reversal And Remand, Kahler V. Kansas, 18-6135 (U.S. June 6, 2019), Paul F. Rothstein

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Amici curiae are a group of philosophically and politically diverse law school professors and scholars in the fields of criminal law and mental health from a variety of disciplines who have been teaching and writing about the insanity defense and related issues throughout their careers. They include the authors of leading criminal law and mental health law treatises and casebooks and numerous important scholarly books and articles.

Amici believe this case raises important questions about principles of criminal responsibility, the integral role of the insanity defense in Anglo-American law, and the inadequacy of the “mens rea alternative” to the traditional …

June 5, 2019: Babbling Barr, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Babbling Barr“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 1, 2019: King Trump, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “King Trump“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 19, 2019: The Universe Doesn’T Care About Your Purpose, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Universe Doesn’t Care About Your Purpose“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 15, 2019: What Impeachment And Court-Packing Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “What Impeachment and Court-packing Have in Common“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 4, 2019: Why Study Talmud?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Why Study Talmud?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Lest Law Forget: Locke's Toleration And Religious Freedom, Stephen Holt

LLM Theses

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees every person in Canada freedom of conscience and religion. I contend that the concept of religious freedom was born out of a history of religious suffering and originally took the form of John Locke’s toleration of religious differences. In Big M, the first Supreme Court of Canada case that interpreted s. 2(a), Chief Justice Dickson recognized the historical context of religious freedom but also tied it to human autonomy, equality, and dignity. An examination of the cases since Big M suggests that when courts think in terms of tolerance, they accord greater …

April 29, 2019: Building Cosmopolis, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ Building Cosmopolis“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

April 21, 2019: More Religious Violence, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “More Religious Violence“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

April 19, 2019: God: The Bait And Switch, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “God: the Bait and Switch“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

April 14, 2019: Two Cases Of Independence--The Court And The Fed--And What They Tell Us About American Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ Two Cases of Independence--the Court and the Fed--and What They Tell Us About American Nihilism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

April 7, 2019: The Universal Christ, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Universal Christ“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

No Arbitrary Power: An Originalist Theory Of The Due Process Of Law, Randy E. Barnett, Evan Bernick

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

“Due process of law” is arguably the most controversial and frequently-litigated phrase in the American Constitution. Although the dominant originalist view has long been that Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process of Law Clauses are solely “process” guarantees and don’t constrain the “substance” of legislation at all, originalist scholars have in recent years made fresh inquiries into the historical evidence and concluded that there’s a weighty case for some form of substantive due process. In this Article, we review and critique these findings employing our theory of good-faith originalist interpretation and construction.

We begin by investigating the “letter” of the …

March 31, 2019: When Cynicism Came To The West, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “When Cynicism Came to the West“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 24, 2019: The Two Party Lies That Fuel Political Alienation In America, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Two Party Lies that Fuel Political Alienation in America“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

The Supreme Court Will Preserve The Bladensburg Cross, But It Matters How, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”

March 17, 2019: The Response To My Anti-Court-Packing Message, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Response to My anti-Court-Packing Message“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 10, 2019: Best Column Even By Thomas Friedman, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Best Column Even by Thomas Friedman“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 7, 2019: Network Message Endorses Nihilism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Network Message Endorses Nihilism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 28, 2019: The Communitarian Collapse In America, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Communitarian Collapse in America“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 23, 2019: Opening Of The Memphis Talk On Court-Packing, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Opening of the Memphis talk on Court-Packing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

March 21, 2019: My Op-Ed On The Bladesnburg Cross, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “ My op-ed on the Bladesnburg Cross“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

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February 16, 2019: John Yoo, War Criminal, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “John Yoo, War Criminal“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

February 12, 2019: Ishmael, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Ishmael“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.