At his excellent new Supreme Court-oriented blog Re's Judicata, Richard Re: Custom in Town of Greece and Vonnegut's "Spruce Falls".
Reading the Court’s recent Establishment Clause decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway made me think about what it would be like to live in two different towns in upstate New York: the real-life Town of Greece, whose public prayers were at issue in the case, and the fictional “Spruce Falls,” which is the setting of Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Poor Little Rich Town.” What unites these two places is the importance of custom. …
RELATED: At the Center for Law and Religion Forum, Marc DeGirolami: Originalism and Town of Greece v. Galloway (commenting on my prior post on the case). Also, at SCOTUSblog from Rick Garnett: Religious pluralism, civic unity, and the judicial role.
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