Immunizing the Flock: How the Pandemic Court Rewrote Religious Freedom

Paul Baumgardner
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Paul Baumgardner: Department of Legal Studies, Belmont University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA

Laws, 2021, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: When coronavirus began to descend upon the United States, religious freedom advocates across the country sounded the alarm that citizens’ religious practices and institutions were under threat. Although some of the most extreme arguments championed by these advocates were not validated by our legal system, many were. This article explores the underappreciated gains made by religious freedom advocates before the U.S. Supreme Court over the past year. As a result of the “Pandemic Court”, religious freedom in the United States has been rewritten. This promises to radically change the educational, employment, and health prospects of millions of Americans for the rest of the pandemic and long afterwards.

Keywords: religious freedom; US Constitution; First Amendment; Supreme Court; pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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