American Crusade
How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
By Andrew L Seidel (Author), Erwin Chemerinsky (Foreword)
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Format Hardcover, Jacketed
American Crusade
How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
by Andrew L Seidel, Erwin Chemerinsky
OVERVIEW
Critically acclaimed author and constitutional attorney Andrew L. Seidel looks at some of the key Supreme Court cases of the last thirty years—including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (a bakery can deny making a wedding cake for a gay couple), Trump v. Hawaii (the anti-Muslim travel ban case), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (related to a group maintaining a 40-foot Christian cross on government-owned land), and Tandon v. Newsom (a Santa Clara Bible group exempted from Covid health restrictions)—and how a hallowed legal protection, freedom of religion, has been turned into a tool to advance privilege and impose religion on others. The book will include a foreword by noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Andrew L. Seidel works as a constitutional attorney at the Freedom From Religion Foundation (ffrf.org), litigating cases involving religion and the Constitution. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Founding Myth; has appeared on Fox and Friends, MSNBC, The O’Reilly Factor, and numerous radio shows; speaks and writes extensively about religious freedom; and has been profiled by BBC News, Buzzfeed, International Business Times, and more. Learn more about Andrew at: @AndrewLSeidel on social media and andrewlseidel.com. He lives in Madison, WI.
Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and President of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a contributing writer for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times, and writes regular columns for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal, and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the Supreme Court. He was named the most influential person in legal education in the United States by National Jurist magazine in 2017.