By: Sen. Josh Hawley – thepublicdiscourse.com – June 16, 2020 I rise today to offer a few thoughts about the Bostock case handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. I have it here. I have now had the chance to read the case, the decision by the majority of the court, and the two dissenting opinions, and I have to say I...

By:  John Daniel Davidson – thefederalist.com – May 22, 2020 On Friday, President Trump said churches and houses of worship are “essential”and called on governors nationwide to allow them to open this weekend. If they don’t, Trump said he would “override” governors, citing forthcoming guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In remarks Thursday, the president criticized some governors who have...

By: Jonathan Turley – usatoday.com – May 18, 2020 The case against Micheal Flynn is abusive and should be dismissed, as the Justice Department requests. But Judge Emmet Sullivan has other ideas. The case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn is rapidly moving from the dubious to the preposterous. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is being widely applauded for resisting the...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – May 12, 2020 First Liberty Institute Leads Coalition of Religious Leaders Calling for Congress to Protect America’s Houses of Worship as They ReopenReligious liberty law firm asks Congress to guard against a possible ‘swarm of lawsuits blaming’ America’s churches, synagogues, and houses of worship Washington, DC—As America’s houses of worship begin to carefully reopen, First...

By: Kelly Shackelford – Newsweek.com – May 13, 2020 Americans are experiencing a nearly unprecedented event in our nation’s history. For people of faith, temporary limitations on the freedom to meet together have impacted one of the church’s most fundamental doctrines—communal gatherings. While Americans of faith treasure that freedom, their love for neighbor drove them to abide by government recommendations...

By: Everett Piper – washingtontimes.com – April 18, 2020 “I fear death, so take my liberty!” The biggest threat to the United States today is not a virus, but rather “virus-shaming.” The greatest challenge the American experiment faces in this dark hour is not our need for safety but our loss of liberty. And the complicity of the church in the wholesale...

By: William Davis  – dailycaller.com – April, 2020 To subscribe to this article and others like it, click read more. Source: How The Coronavirus Is Infecting Americans’ Civil Liberties | The Daily Caller

By: Jennifer Van Laar – redstate.com – April 13, 2020 President Donald Trump walks from the podium as a White House produced video plays during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The mainstream media got their a**es handed to them by a justifiably...

By: 1st Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org – March 19, 2020 We are in the midst of global pandemic. And as a result, our federal, state, and local officials have responded by posing restrictions on the number of people that can gather in one place-in some areas the limit is as few as 10 people. Restaurants, coffee houses, and movie theaters have...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – March 10, 2020 Religious Liberty Firm to Supreme Court: End this Assault on Little Sisters of the Poor, Religious Organizations First Liberty Institute files friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of charity urging Court to preserve religious exemption from ACA’s contraceptive mandate Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Little Sisters of the Poor v....