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Jessica Payne, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek the study needs to be interpreted with caution until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.

This spiritual downtick has spawned endless charts and data-driven debates, with scholars pinning the blame for it on everything from economic comfort and fraying family ties to shifting demographics. But sociologist Christian Smith, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, believes that these reams of stats, while helpful, do not capture what’s really going on.

“The Supreme Court has fundamentally reset the relationship between the federal courts and the executive branch,” Notre Dame Law 91ÊÓÆµ professor Samuel Bray, who has studied nationwide injunctions, said in a statement. “Since the Obama administration, almost every major presidential initiative has been frozen by federal district courts issuing ‘universal injunctions.’”

"I do not expect the president's executive order on birthright citizenship will ever go into effect," said Samuel Bray, a Notre Dame Law 91ÊÓÆµ professor and a prominent critic of universal injunctions whose work the court's majority cited extensively in Friday's ruling.

By Samuel Bray. Mr. Bray is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.

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