Additional Class Materials

In addition to the assigned reading, below you will find a variety of links to material related to the course. This list will be updated frequently as new material is identified.

SCOTUSblog - website for everything there is to know about the current cases before the U.S. Supreme Court - SCOTUS is the abbreviations for Supreme Court of the United States - http://www.scotusblog.com

101 First Street - First Monday Podcasts (Introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court in Two Podcasts) (linked on the SCOTUSblog website) - http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/08/101-first-street/

Pew Center Survey on U.S. Religious and Spiritual Attitudes - Survey Shows an increase in people considering themselves to be spiritual but not religious (27 percent; up 8 percent in 5 years from 2012-2017) as well as a parallel decrease in those considering themselves to be religious (54 percent; down 11 percent in 5 years to 54 percent).

List of Law Schools Attended by Supreme Court Justices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_attended_by_United_States_Supreme_Court_Justices

Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitation by Gamson, McDermott, and Reed (2015, Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences) - http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.3.01

Equal Access Act Article - The Equal Access Act: Still Controversial After All These Years (Leora Harpaz) (Feb. 2004) - http://www.wneclaw.com/lawed/EAAarticleharpaz.html

Equal Access Act (PowerPoint) - EqualAccessAct.pptx