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Advocacy Blog
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
ACS and CAP Brown Bag on Church-State and Roberts
WHAT:Church-State Issues and the Roberts Nomination
WHO:American Constitution Society
Center for American Progress
Brown Bag Lunch Series
WHERE:Wednesday, August 17, 2005, Noon-1:30pm
106 Dirksen Senate Office Building
ACS and CAP will hold a brown bag lunch to discuss current constitutional interpretation of the First Amendment’s religion clauses and the ways in which that interpretation could change as a result of Justice O’Connor’s retirement from the U. S. Supreme Court. The event also will include a discussion of Article VI’s “religious test” clause and its application to the Senate’s consideration of judicial nominees.
Their featured speaker will be Erwin Chemerinsky, the Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Professor Chemerinsky has argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court. Most recently, he appeared before the Court on behalf of Thomas Van Orden in the Texas Ten Commandments case, Van Orden v. Perry, which was decided this past term. Chemerinsky is the author of four books, including a constitutional law casebook and treatise, and more than 100 law review articles. He writes a regular column on the Supreme Court for California Lawyer, Los Angeles Daily Journal and Trial Magazine.
For more information, please contact Nick Rathod at the Center for American Progress at nrathod@americanprogress.org.
Posted by Jennifer Lowe
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