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Immunizing the Flock: How the Pandemic Court Rewrote Religious Freedom

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  • Paul Baumgardner

    (Department of Legal Studies, Belmont University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA)

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When coronavirus began to descend upon the United States, religious freedom advocates across the country sounded the alarm that citizens’ religious practices and institutions were under threat. Although some of the most extreme arguments championed by these advocates were not validated by our legal system, many were. This article explores the underappreciated gains made by religious freedom advocates before the U.S. Supreme Court over the past year. As a result of the “Pandemic Court”, religious freedom in the United States has been rewritten. This promises to radically change the educational, employment, and health prospects of millions of Americans for the rest of the pandemic and long afterwards.

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  • Paul Baumgardner, 2021. "Immunizing the Flock: How the Pandemic Court Rewrote Religious Freedom," Laws, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:10:y:2021:i:1:p:12-:d:500576
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    1. Adelaide Madera, 2021. "The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religious Exercise: Preliminary Remarks," Laws, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-10, June.

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