Prof. Michael McConnell, Jeff Rosen, and I on the Court’s Recent Free Speech and Religious Freedom Cases – Reason

On a Constitution Center podcast:

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down two nearly unanimous decisions in cases involving the First Amendment. One was an 8-1 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts inRamirezv. Collier, in which the Court sided with a death row inmate who claimed he had the right to have the religious leader of his choice touch him and pray audibly for him in the execution chamber. The other opinion was 9-0 inHouston Community Collegev.Wilson, where the Court held that a legislative censure issued by a community college board did not violate the free speech rights of the respondent, another trustee on the board, in an opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

First Amendment expertsMichael McConnellof Stanford Law School andEugene Volokhof UCLA Law join hostJeffrey Rosento discuss the opinions' impact on how we interpret and understand and religious freedom and freedom of speech in America.

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Prof. Michael McConnell, Jeff Rosen, and I on the Court's Recent Free Speech and Religious Freedom Cases - Reason