Anthony Murray, educated at a Jesuit law school at a time when I would have thought that that still meant something, worries at great length that—gasp—some Supreme Court justices might actually believe in natural law. To him, this would run the risk of introducing religious considerations into cases—all those involving the contraceptive mandate—where he thinks they don’t belong.
He seems to be some sort of legal positivist influenced by Oliver Wendell Holmes, as he frequently cites that tart-tongued justice as if his word should be the last:
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