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Kelly Shackelford

Kelly Shackelford

President, CEO and Chief Counsel of First Liberty Institute

Kelly Shackelford, Esq., has been president and CEO of Liberty Institute since 1997. Mr. Shackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before the U.S. House and Senate on constitutional issues, and has won three state landmark First Amendment and religious liberty cases in the past few years alone. He was recently named one of the 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past quarter century by Texas Lawyer, and is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award for Life and Religious Freedom Defense for his leadership and pioneering work protecting religious freedom.

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Supreme Court COUP - update

Supreme Coup Update: The End of Judicial Review?Exposing The Lie of Court Reform & The Radical Plan to Destroy America’s Judicial System

Featured on: Friday, September 17, 2021

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Defenders of religious freedom honor President Trump

By: Jeff Stoffer - legion.org - August 30, 2018 A gold-plated .22-caliber repeating rifle engraved with images of a bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty...

Featured on: Friday, August 31, 2018

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Chaplain Assistant Loses Opportunity for Advancement

By: First Liberty Institute - firstliberty.org - August 1 2018 First Liberty Institute demands MG Kurt Sonntag be held accountable for his refusal to...

Featured on: Friday, August 3, 2018

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It’s Christmas in July

By: First Liberty Institue - firstliberty.org - June 28, 2018 Christmas In July! As Supreme Court term closes, First Liberty celebrates several victo...

Featured on: Friday, June 29, 2018

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First Liberty Cases (Coach Kennedy and Judge Mack)

By: Mike Carter - seattletimes.com - January 25, 2018 Attorneys for former Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy say they will take the ca...

Featured on: Friday, January 26, 2018

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Top Threats to Your Religious Liberty

By: firstliberty.org - December 28, 2017 As 2017 closes, America finds itself at a tipping point, with the stakes for religious freedom at an all-tim...

Featured on: Friday, January 5, 2018

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Colorado Cake Artist and Oregon Sweet Cakes

  By: firstliberty.org - September 15, 2017 On September 7, 2017, attorneys with First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief with...

Featured on: Friday, December 8, 2017

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Shackelford: Trump Religious Liberty Executive Order Is Encouraging Progress

Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO and Chief Counsel of First Liberty Institute, today praised President Trump’s new Executive Order promoting free spe...

Featured on: Friday, May 5, 2017

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August 7, 2026
Penna Dexter

Flyaway Zone

Since retiring from pulpit ministry 10 years ago, Anglican priest David Roseberry has found creative and practical ways to encourage leaders in his denomination and help them grow their churches and e...

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August 7, 2026
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Transgender Common Sense

Common sense is surfacing in many of the policies and programs associated with transgenderism. One illustration can be found in a recent article about “The Long March Out of the Gender Clinics.” The a...

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Kerby Anderson

AI Cheating

We know that college students are using AI tools to help them research projects and write papers. But the problem apparently is much worse than we might have imagined. For 34 years, Robert Serrano has...

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