Frank J. Colucci is an associate professor of political science at Purdue University Northwest. He teaches courses in American politics and constitutional law and history with a focus on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty, which contains extended analysis of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s critical opinions involving religion, free speech and religion. He also served as a fellow at the Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment at the University of Colorado.

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