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Justice Neil Gorsuch: Religious Freedom’s New Champion

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Justice Neil Gorsuch: Religious Freedom’s New Champion
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch (L) walks through Statuary Hall to the House Chamber for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the Capitol on Feb. 4, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Rob Natelson
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Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups that have historically been victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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