Intent and Facially Neutral Blaine Amendments
Were state bans on private school funding fueled by 19th-century anti-Catholic bias—or by a genuine push for equal public education?
Annika Barkdull joins us to dig into the history and discuss how courts should decide when such laws violate the First Amendment.
Annika Boone Barkdull is a Research Fellow at BYU Law School, and a non-residential Research Fellow with the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Her research focuses on law and religion, and has appeared in the Arizona Law Review. Annika received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Political Communication, summa cum laude, from George Washington University. After law school she clerked for Judge Ryan Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Thomas Lee of the Utah Supreme Court.