Author: Nicholas J. Little
Nick Little is the Vice President and General Counsel of the Center for Inquiry. In this role, he oversees both the Center’s in-house legal work, and its outside litigation.
No Place for Science in the Supreme Court’s Christian America
Josh Lyman in The West Wing described Friday as “take out the trash day.” On Friday, the fictional White House would release as many of its bad news stories as possible in the knowledge that they would be reported in Saturday’s newspapers, because (so the thinking went) no one reads Saturday’s papers. For the past …
This article is available for free to all.R. I. P. the Establishment Clause
The Establishment Clause. Born: December 15, 1791, Richmond, Virginia. Died after a long period of neglect: June 30, 2020, Washington, D.C. The Establishment Clause is survived by its younger twin, the Free Exercise Clause. Birth and Childhood “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …” On a winter’s day in 1791, the …
This article is available for free to all.Humanism and Prisoners’ Rights: A Reply to Jon Guy
Jon Guy has written an impassioned essay taking strong exception to a 2015 editorial in which we maintained, among other things, that the American Humanist Association (AHA) had employed an inadvisable legal strategy in its representation of an Oregon inmate, James Holden. AHA filed a lawsuit on Holden’s behalf when his federal correctional institution denied …
Vale, Anthony Kennedy
I’ve been a practicing lawyer for thirteen years this summer, with three years of law school before that. The overwhelming majority of that practice and study has been focused on the federal court system, which means, in the final analysis, the Supreme Court. For those sixteen years, one person more than any has dominated the …
Secularism Humanism: Not a Religion
Conceding from its opening move that humanism is a religion, the American Humanist Association damaged the movement while defending one prisoner’s rights.
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