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Mametโ€™s Map and NetChoice v. Paxton

Philip Hamburger

A curious event in Supreme Court history happened last month: An amicus brief was filed that consists entirely of a short story. Although this kind of literary contribution to...

Our Anti-Catholic Administrative State

Philip Hamburger

Notwithstanding the all-consuming salience of the election, one day afterward the Supreme Court will consider another fateful question in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. On the surface, the case...

A Dismal Tradition

Philip Hamburger

Readers of First Things will already know of the recent senatorial attacks on judicial nominees for their Catholicism. In the 2017 hearings for circuit-court judge Amy Coney Barrett, Senator...

Prejudice and the Blaine Amendments

Philip Hamburger

During the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in Trinity Lutheran of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer. The state of Missouri has a program reimbursing nonprofits...