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OPINION | By Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies in the Keough 91ÊÓÆµ of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. A priest ordained by the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, he is the co-founder and president of the Bethany Land Institute, a residential training program in integral ecology in rural Uganda.

But anecdotes don’t make a national trend. And experts have urged caution: “These stories are a very small drop in a very large ocean, whose currents have for decades been taking people away from religion,” said David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame who researches secularization.

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara to consider whether President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship was constitutional. Princeton University Center for Migration & Development Research Fellow Phillip Connor and University of Notre Dame Keough 91ÊÓÆµ of Global Affairs Professor Francesc Ortega join Joe Mathieu and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss the economic impact the move could have on the country. 

The evening earlier, on March 19, Alito attended a separate dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating Notre Dame law professor Sherif Girgis, who had received the Edwin Meese Originalism Award from the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law within the Mike Pence-founded organization of Advancing American Freedom. Girgis, also a former Alito clerk, appeared the next day at the March 20 symposium.

Whoever holds the job in the long term will almost certainly be expected to carry out Trump’s retribution campaign with more success, said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official and law professor at Notre Dame. “If she was fired because Trump did not think that she was moving quickly enough in bringing criminal cases against his political enemies, then you would expect that the person that would replace her would probably agree to escalate those efforts,” Gurule said.

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