Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Justice Scalia's Opinions on Religion Clauses and Religious Issues (Updated)

The media continue to be filled with tributes to Justice Antonin Scalia who died suddenly over the week end. (See prior posting).  Religion News Service and NPR review Justice Scalia's views on religion, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment and on social issues that have become religious flash points.

Here are links to cases involving issues of religion, religious exercise or religious speech in which Scalia wrote opinions (either majority, concurring or dissenting):
Here are opinions he wrote on issues of abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage:
These lists are almost certainly incomplete.  I invite readers to continue to send along citations to others that should be added.