U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights
Nov. 17, 2020
Discrimination based on religion
During recent oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barret rightly said: “I think we would agree that there’s really not any circumstance we can think of in which racial discrimination would be permitted as a religious exemption.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Religious beliefs should not provide an exemption from civil rights laws or be allowed as an excuse for discriminating. At the recent oral argument, on Nov. 4, in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Justice Amy Coney Barret rightly said: "I think we would agree that there's really not any circumstance we can think of in which racial discrimination would be permitted as a religious exemption." Nor should religious beliefs be a basis for discrimi...
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