Religious liberty at the Supreme Court

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Marci Hamilton of the University of Pennsylvania and Hannah Smith of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty discuss the issues and best arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We
0:08.0	the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.5	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress
0:16.7	to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:22.1	And today we consider one of the most important
0:24.4	Supreme Court cases of the year, Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia versus Comer.
0:30.0	The question is does the exclusion of churches from an otherwise neutral and secular government
0:35.1	aid program violate the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and the equal protection
0:40.2	clause of the 14th Amendment. I had the incredible honor of being in the courtroom
0:46.2	yesterday to hear this argument which was one of the first where Justice
0:50.3	Neil Gorsuch participated.
0:52.7	It was fascinating to hear the arguments,
0:54.9	and I'm so excited that we have to discuss them
0:58.3	two of America's leading experts on religious liberty
1:01.9	and the Constitution.
1:03.0	Here with me in studio is Marcy Hamilton.
1:05.5	She is Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar and Residents
1:08.7	in the Program for Research on Religious and Urban Civil Society
1:12.2	at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:14.0	Marcy is also the Paul R Verkeule research chair at the Benjamin and Cardoza School of Law
1:19.5	at Yeshiva University.
1:21.8	And joining by phone is Hannah Smith.
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