Saints, statues, and church-state separation

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression. I have observed that, when it comes to religious freedom and church-state relations – and contrary to some commentators’ complaints – the Roberts court has been conducting a “doctrinal clean-up,” moving the law “toward coherence and clarity, and better align[ing] it with American history, tradition a