Religion – Andrew Koppelman

Religion and the wrong defense of abortion rights | The Hill Column

By Andrew Koppelman | August 16, 2022 |

It is commonly claimed that restrictions on abortion illegitimately impose some people’s religious beliefs on the rest of us. This is the wrong way to defend abortion rights. It implies that religious motives have no legitimate place in lawmaking. In fact, we all have normative commitments that we have trouble articulating – you could call them matters of…

The Supreme Court and the new religious aristocracy — The Hill Column

By Andrew Koppelman | July 11, 2022 |

The Supreme Court has effectively authorized schoolteachers to pressure their students to pray. Kennedy v. Bremerton held that football coach Joseph Kennedy had the right to engage in what Justice Neil Gorsuch called a “short, private, personal prayer” on the 50-yard line after games. The court held that forbidding that prayer improperly discriminated on the basis of religion,…

Andrew Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor
of Political Science at Northwestern University

Andrew Koppelman

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

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Religion and the wrong defense of abortion rights | The Hill Column

The Supreme Court and the new religious aristocracy — The Hill Column