Kelly Shackelford

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President and CEO — 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 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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July 17, 2026

Penna Dexter

Un-American History Museum

Commensurate with an executive order President Trump issued early last year, the White House has just released a sweeping report, the result of its audit of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Americ...

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July 17, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Why the West Won

Kerby AndersonHistorian Nial Ferguson begins his PragerU video with a lament that few students graduate from college with any idea of what makes Western Civilization different from the rest of the wor...

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July 16, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Children of Liberal Parents

Kerby AndersonDr. Leonard Sax holds a PhD in psychology and has been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. He said he never saw a connection between politics and parenting, until now. “Left-of-center p...

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