In oral arguments, the justices asked the tough questions about "race-conscious" admissions.
Kody W. Cooper
The Supreme Court's religion jurisprudence has for too long treated religion as a public vice. Kennedy v. Bremerton begins to reconsider that.
By forbidding CSS from placing children in foster homes, Philadelphia quashes any vestiges of reasonable pluralism on the meaning of marriage.
For Thomas, the Constitution facilitates personal responsibility and well-ordered families which are the conditions of a flourishing community.
Kody W. Cooper is UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is author of Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), and coauthor of The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2022). He can be followed on Twitter @DrKodyCooper.