@Ruth_Mottram this BBC programme on the rebuilding of Notre Dame was fascinating. Since of the graphics were amazing! (BBC is changing what is available elsewhere so I've no idea who will be able to access it.)

#NotreDame

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002b2gm

Garnett has called #ClarenceThomas a “mentor, teacher, friend — & hero,” according to the letter. The group also says Garnett has hosted Thomas & his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, at her home. Garnett’s husband co-taught seminars with Thomas at #NotreDame law school.

The watchdog group Accountable.us & Rep Hank Johson (D-GA) issued a letter calling for #ClarenceThomas’s #recusal from the #Oklahoma case because of his ties to Nicole Garnett, the #NotreDame #law prof, who helped shepherd it.

But unlike #AmyConeyBarrett, Thomas did not #recuse.

Garnett was a clerk for Thomas in the late 1990s & has maintained a close relationship w/ him, which Accountable & Johnson say call into question his objectivity in the case.

#AmyConeyBarrett, who previously taught at #NotreDame, honorably #recused herself from the case, presumably because of her relationship w/ Garnett & the #law school.

Legal experts have said that one of Chief Justice #JohnRoberts’ most significant legacies is how #SCOTUS’ #conservative majority has steadily pushed #religion into #public life.

The general counsel for the Archdiocese of #OklahomaCity knew Garnett & her work at #NotreDame, & in 2021 asked for her help.

The #law school itself has become a pipeline for #SCOTUS clerks, w/ #conservative justices increasingly hiring Notre Dame grads & faculty to work in their chambers. The school has regularly paid for justices to lecture & teach.

The case has the backing of an influential #religious liberty clinic at the University of #NotreDame’s #Law School in Indiana.

Law professor Nicole Garnett pressed the idea that denying govt funding for parochial charter schools would amount to anti-religious discrimination. She based her position on recent #SCOTUS decisions that have expanded the role of #religion in #public life.