For nearly 36 years, since the days of Dwight David Eisenhower, Liberty Lobby has conducted its ultraconservative ”campaign for patriotism” from its headquarters in the shadow of the Capitol.

Marci A. Hamilton, the Paul R. Verkuil chair in public law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, is the author of "God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty ...