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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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The socialists want a new Constitution. Believe them.

The DSA isn’t merely proposing ‘bigger government.’ Its own program calls for remaking the institutions that restrain federal power and endanger liber...

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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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October 28, 2026
Kerby Anderson

Marx and Moody

Marxist ideas are surfacing all over the world. We need to educate, especially the younger generation, about the toxic ideas developed by Karl Marx and spread through nearly every institution.

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October 27, 2026
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AI Fears

Roger Kimball begins his column in The Spectator about artificial intelligence with this admission. “It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative.” As you might imagine, the...

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October 26, 2026
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Rubio in Athens

Earlier this month Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an important speech in Athens with the acropolis in the background. The Wall Street Journal editors described it as the speech of the year....

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