We are joined by budding media celebrity, Sonja West, who got her start on Episode 1 of Oral Argument. We again turn to the Hobby Lobby decision and the Supreme Court’s odd epilogue. With Sonja’s expert guidance we try to make sense of the web of religious liberty. Also, war on women or the century of gender equality?
Sonja West’s faculty profile and writingOral Argument 1: Send Joe to Prison, guest Sonja WestSonja West’s appearance on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellBurwell v. Hobby Lobby StoresThe full but brief text of the Religious Freedom Restoration ActOral Argument 25: Normal Religions, in which we first discussed and set out the basics of the Hobby Lobby decisionWheaton College v. Burwell, granting a temporary injunction pending full appellate reviewWheaton College, the one in Illinois, and its Statement of Faith and Educational PurposeForm 700Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West, Quick Change Justice: While You Were Sleeping, Hobby Lobby Just Got So Much WorseMarty Lederman, What Next in Wheaton College? Is It Also a “Win/Win” Compromise?University of Notre Dame v. Sebelius, Posner’s Seventh Circuit opinion on Notre Dame’s objections to filling out Form 700Michael Dorf, Hobby Lobby Post-Mortem Part 2: The Wheaton College StayReprieve, Gitmo Detainees Demand Same Religious Rights as Hobby LobbyEmployment Division v. Smith, the case that launched RFRABoy Scouts of America v. DaleDahlia Lithwick, After Hobby Lobby, Dahlia’s analysis of the gender divide evident in and exacerbated by the Supreme Court’s end-of-term decisions (posted after we recorded)Special Guest: Sonja West.