Rise & Shine

CLARENCE THOMAS'S THEOCRACYIs the Supreme Court justice laying the legal groundwork to establish official religions in the United States? In last term's blockbuster First Amend­ment case, five Supreme Court justices ruled that town councils can open legis­lative sessions with a prayer without vi­olating the Constitution. That decision in and of itself distorts the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment—that all-important phrase in the Bill of Rights that says "Congress shall make no la...