Kevin Daley, Author at Catholic Herald

Kevin Daley

Is the Peace Cross ruling a turning point for religious freedom?

July 11, 2019

In June the Supreme Court ruled that a 40ft war memorial cross on public land in suburban Maryland did not violate the Constitution. But in doing so, it extracted a steep price. The American Legion erected a monument (pictured) to the First World War dead of Prince George’s County in 1925; a state parks commission

The wrong way to defend public religious symbolism

February 14, 2019

Later this month, the Supreme Court will decide whether a Maryland parks commission violates the Constitution by administering a World War I monument which takes the shape of a Latin cross. Three Maryland residents and the American Humanist Association wish to see the memorial, the Peace Cross, removed. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals

America’s courts are defending religious liberty – for now

December 20, 2018

The emergence of a dogged, determined secularism notwithstanding, religious liberty litigators are curiously optimistic about their prospects in court. In the near term, the sunny uplands of religious freedom are seemingly in sight: the sharp rightward pivot on the Supreme Court may redound to the benefit of embattled religious believers, while a constellation of well-organised

The Catholics who could be the next Supreme Court justice

July 07, 2018

Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are young jurists of high regard in the conservative legal establishment

The judges in the frame

July 05, 2018

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the US Supreme Court will precipitate a cataclysmic political fight, as the departure of the long-serving swing justice will shift the panel’s balance of power sharply to the right. On a court divided evenly between four conservatives and four liberals, Kennedy held the decisive vote on a range of heated

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