Stephen M. Feldman is the Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State, Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History, and Pack the Court! A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion among other titles.
""Vigorous, opinionated, and forceful, Stephen Feldman's Who Belongs is a powerful book, putting the current Supreme Court in both jurisprudential and historical context."" - Paul Finkelman, University of Toledo College of Law ""A powerful indictment of the Roberts Court, and especially the more recent Roberts Court supermajority. Feldman's argument that the Court is operating from a white Christian nationalist perspective is not just hyperbole. It is consistent with the outcomes in many recent cases. Who Belongs is an important question to ask in today's legal climate. Feldman's answer is carefully researched and chilling. This is a must read for anyone interested in the future of justice in the United States."" - Frank S. Ravitch, Michigan State University College of Law ""From the time of the ""founding"" of America as a separate country, who exactly belonged within that community has been an enduring issue. How much genuine ""diversity"" and ""inclusion""– whether regarding race and ethnicity or, the central topic of this book, religion - was genuinely tolerable? Stephen Feldman's new book throws important light on recent interventions by the United States Supreme Court regarding these vital concerns. Even those readers who do not share, as I do, Feldman's worries will benefit from his analysis of doctrinal developments during the now two-decade reign of the Roberts Court, bolstered, of course, by militantly conservative religious colleagues."" - Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School