1598 Andrew Seidel + News & Clips
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Andrew L. Seidel is Vice President of Strategic Communications for AU, an author, and an attorney who's defended the First Amendment for more than a decade. Andrew is the author of two books:Ā The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-AmericanĀ (2019) andĀ American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious FreedomĀ (2022). He's also co-editor of an academic text,Ā Law and Religion: Cases and MaterialsĀ (Foundation Press, 2022) 5th Edition, with Prof. Leslie Griffin of UNLV law school.
A Senior Correspondent atĀ Religion Dispatches, Andrew is a prolific author of opeds, has written severalĀ scholarly articles, hasĀ debatedĀ the utility of the Johnson Amendment, and organized and contributed to the groundbreaking report, "Christian Nationalism at the January 6, 2021, Insurrection," which was published by the Baptist Joint Committee and the Freedom From Religion Foundation and aroused congressional interest. Andrew is a recognized expert on Christian Nationalism, which he's spent the last decade fighting in and out of court. He's appeared on Fox News to debate Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC, and hundreds of other media outlets.
Andrew graduatedĀ cum laudeĀ from Tulane University ('04) with a B.S. in neuroscience and environmental science andĀ magna cum laudeĀ from Tulane University Law School ('09), where he was awarded the Haber J. McCarthy Award for excellence in environmental law. He studied human rights and international law at the University of Amsterdam and traveled the world on Semester at Sea. Andrew completed his Master of Laws at Denver University Sturm College of Law ('11) with a perfect GPA and was awarded the Outstanding L.L.M. Award for his work as the Erik Bluemel International Environmental Law Fellow. After a short stint in private practice Andrew joined the Freedom From Religion Foundation as a constitutional attorney and later Director of Strategic Response, running a nimble unit known as the Strategic Response Team and helping elevate that organization's profile. He joined AU in March of 2022.
Before dedicating his life and law degree to keeping state and church separate, Andrew was a Grand Canyon tour guide and an accomplished nature photographer.
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.2 | Hey, it's Tuesday. |
| 0:03.4 | It's May 19th, and I have Andrew Seidel, who is a constitutional law scholar from the Americans United Organization, |
| 0:10.9 | Americans United for separation of church and state and the author of a bunch of very good books. |
| 0:16.6 | And you're going to love our conversation. |
| 0:18.9 | I wanted to get his take on where the Christian nationalism movement is right now. |
| 0:23.7 | He tracks it very closely, and it was a great conversation. |
| 0:27.7 | If you want to listen to it, you can jump to it. |
| 0:30.2 | It starts at 17 minutes in. |
| 0:32.2 | But I've got your headlines and a few clips for you. |
| 0:35.4 | My power went out because it's so hot here in New York. So I've only got a |
| 0:40.6 | several, well, I've got several clips. It'll be fine. I don't even know why I told you that. |
| 0:43.8 | But I guess it's my way of telling you, it's hot. Who cares? There are fires in California. The weather |
| 0:48.3 | is extreme everywhere. I'm very glad to have you here joining me today. My daughter graduates from college tomorrow with her associate's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology. |
| 0:58.6 | Mom and dad are driving down. The whole family is going to be together in Central Park for the graduation. So that's what's going on on Wednesday. |
| 1:06.2 | Today is the school board election that I've been working not as hard as I wish I could have been on or should have been on, but I think we got a shot at winning back two seats. |
| 1:16.9 | So pretty nervous, pretty uptight about that, but very much looking forward to getting the results late tonight, early tomorrow, and hoping that we gain two seats back on what is now a |
| 1:29.8 | six to one MAGA board, or five to two, actually, five to two. |
| 1:34.3 | So we will hopefully take two seats back. |
| 1:37.5 | And then that would be some real progress. |
| 1:40.5 | We haven't seen too much change in our school district as a result of the MAGA board. Thank |
| 1:44.9 | God. But I'm sure we would have seen a lot more diversity hires and all kinds of other things that |
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