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Thank you, Judge, and I want to thank Eva for inviting me to participate and all of you for being here this afternoon.
My area of scholarly expertise is the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment. That is what I write about. So far, the Supreme Court has not taken any cases on the Religion Clauses this term, which is a little unusual. The Court has decided several important cases in this area in the last decade or so, and maybe the Court has decided to take a break this term. We will see.
But some important church-and-state issues are working their way through the lower federal courts. And this afternoon, I want to talk briefly about one such issue, which I think is bound to reach the Court soon and which will require the Court to clarify some themes in its Establishment Clause jurisprudence: whether displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms are constitutional.