RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, January 21, 2026, at 11 am at Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT. The program will also be shown on Zoom at https://bit.ly/30IBj21and on local cable channels 24 (Verizon) and 79 (Optimum)
Nelson Tebbe
“The Roberts Court’s Remaking of Religious Freedom”
Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has remade the law surrounding religious freedom, strengthening the right to free exercise and weakening the Establishment Clause. Nelson Tebbe, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, will describe the changes that the court has made since about 2020. He will focus on three cases that were decided this summer: concerning parents’ right to absent their children from aspects of the public school curriculum that offend their religious values, concerning the ability of religious groups to form charter schools, and concerning the rights of religious employers to be exempt from paying unemployment taxes. In these cases, the Roberts Court has extended the pattern of ruling in favor of religious actors.
Professor Tebbe works on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and general constitutional law. In the spring of 2025, he was the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress. His articles have appeared in leading legal periodicals including Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Harvard Law Review, and his books have been published by Harvard and Oxford University Presses. As a media commentator, he has published opinion pieces in media outlets such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Professor Tebbe also holds a Ph.D. with distinction in the anthropology and sociology of religion from the University of Chicago.
Our next presentation, on January 28, will be historian Ed Hynes on “Warfare on Long Island Sound During the American Revolution.”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00 am. For additional information see https://greenwichrma.org.
