[Opinion] Notre Dame Awards Religious Liberty Prize to Becket Fund for Supreme Court Wins

Unsealed letter reveals Scalia’s fierce defense of landmark religious liberty decision

Justice Antonin Scalia usually let his opinions speak for themselves, but he was so irked by criticism of one of his religious liberty rulings that he wrote a private defense of his reasoning, according to an unsealed court document obtained by "Seen, Heard & Whispered."

Notre Dame Awards Religious Liberty Prize to Becket Fund for Supreme Court Wins

Becket President Mark Rienzi said the group is ‘deeply honored’ to be awarded the prize, saying religious liberty ‘is worth fighting for.’

Notre Dame gives religious liberty prize to Becket Fund for Supreme Court wins

Notre Dame Law School awarded its 2026 Prize for Religious Liberty to the Becket Fund — a nonprofit law firm that has secured 13 Supreme Court victories in the past 15 years defending the First Amendment’s religious liberty protections.“We’re deeply honored to be recognized with the religious liberty prize,” Becket President and CEO Mark Rienzi told EWTN News.“We’re honored to be able to be part of fighting to protect something that is very impo…