Richard Garnett

May 19, 2023

"The American constitutional system "protects private actors," says Notre Dame law professor Richard W. Garnett, while constraining how government officials can exercise their power.

May 01, 2023

“People are called traditionalists because of their aesthetic tastes,” said Richard Garnett, the director of the Program on Church, State and Society at Notre Dame University. “And that’s given some political baggage like they’re hostile to the pope or they don’t believe in the Second Vatican Council and that’s a mistake.”

April 20, 2023

Rick Garnett, a law professor from the University of Notre Dame, told the Washington Examiner the court's three Democratic appointees might prefer Congress to address any outstanding questions in Hardison.

December 13, 2022

“As I see it (or, as I heard it), many of the justices were asking the advocates to help them identify lines and limits. It is unlikely that any of the justices believes that public-accommodations laws never implicate First Amendment rights and also unlikely that any of them believes that they always do. What, then, is the principle, factor, or consideration that judges and regulators can use to distinguish between impermissible and permissible uses of such laws?” wrote Rick Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, to me in an email.

June 28, 2022

Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School.

June 20, 2022

So does much of the ongoing tension over the establishment clause, says Richard Garnett, professor of law and political science at the University of Notre Dame.

June 01, 2022

Notre Dame Law School professor Richard Garnett noted that the plaintiffs in SFFA and Dobbs invoked similar arguments in saying that stare decisis, the principle establishing that prior decisions should be binding, should not be followed when the court feels that the precedential decision is "wrong."

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May 01, 2022

Professor Richard Garnett, Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, joined WGN Radio’s Karen Conti to address the Supreme Court case regarding high school football coach Joseph Kennedy, in Washington, being fired for kneeling at the 50 yard line after every game and saying a prayer.

April 21, 2022

Richard W. Garnett IV, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, helped write a brief in support of Kennedy that calls on the court to reexamine its “endorsement test,” which asks whether a reasonable observer would think the government was endorsing a particular religious message.

March 29, 2022

Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Program on Church, State, and Society at the University of Notre Dame.

January 14, 2022

Rick Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, authored an amicus brief cataloguing governments’ many recent efforts to squelch religious speech, including the University of Iowa deregistering religious student groups, Florida State University removing a member of the student senate for sharing religious views in text messages and a high school in Washington state that punished a football coach for praying on the field after games.

October 08, 2021

Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.

September 13, 2021

Rick Garnett, a law professor and Director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, noted that neither public nor private institutions of higher education would be obligated to offer religious exemptions amid a general vaccine mandate, especially during a public health crisis. 

July 07, 2021

Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, wrote in an email to Indiana Lawyer that “any challenges to regulations of abortion (that invoke federal claims, as opposed to state-law ones) are going to be kind of ‘on hold’ until Dobbs is decided. Or, if a lower court has to rule on such a challenge in the interim, any appeals will certainly depend on what the Court does in Dobbs.”

June 22, 2021

Richard W. Garnett is professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

April 28, 2021

“Whether we think the founding fathers were right or not, they believed it was important for judicial power to be separate from legislative power and separate from executive power,” said Richard Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

April 17, 2021

Even that assessment slightly overstates the gap between liberals and conservatives, said Richard Garnett, director of the program on church, state and society at the University of Notre Dame. 

January 22, 2021

Legal experts generally agreed that the phrase only applied to instances where someone was mistreated because of their biological sex, said Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, to the Deseret News in 2019.

December 31, 2020

Richard Garnett, director of the Church, State and Society program at Notre Dame Law School and a friend of Barrett’s, said she sticks by legal principles in the face of political forces.