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Amy Coney Barrett sizes up 30-year-old precedent balancing religious freedom with rule of law

  • Written by Mark Satta, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
imageAn early case will test Justice Barrett's credentials as a favorite of religious conservatives.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first week as an active Supreme Court justice began on Nov. 2 and almost immediately included a case that could test her credentials as a religious conservative.

On the surface, Fulton v. City...

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