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March 13th, 2025
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters
Yesterday, First Liberty Institute and the law firms Gibson Dunn and Spencer Fane filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court with Gibson Dunn representing First Liberty and First Liberty representing Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Department of Education, and the Oklahoma Board of Education. The brief challenges the exclusion of religious schools from the state’s charter school program, thus...
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March 5th, 2025
Source: New Trump Administration Is Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom – The Stream
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February 28th, 2025
Criminally Charged with Compassion – Pastor Avell
Pastor Chris Avell is facing criminal charges. His alleged crime? Ministering to the community of Bryan, Ohio 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No matter the time of day, Pastor Chris wants to keep the doors of his church open as a refuge for those in need. But city officials are blocking him from helping the vulnerable. He...
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February 25th, 2025
Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It.
On CBS, our era’s historical ignorance hits a new low.
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February 21st, 2025
J.D. Vance Speech in Europe
JD Vance, who defended free speech last week in Europe, is the kind of vice president Americans deserve.
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February 21st, 2025
Criminal Sentence of Ohio Pastor
Ohio Court Stays Imposition of Sentence of Bryan, Ohio Pastor State appellate court ruling is the second favoring the church’s overnight ministry. Toledo, OH—A panel of judges on the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth Appellate District, granted […]
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February 19th, 2025
Censoring Conservative Speech
Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a legal complaint with the Trump administration’s Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Wednesday alleging that Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University (ERAU) has cracked down on certain forms of speech, violating several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
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February 19th, 2025
Big Tech Censorship
Crushing dissent How elites in government and Big Tech collude to turn America’s censorship apparatus on its own people…
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February 13th, 2025
Treat Children Fairly: Let Parents Choose
In this case—Carson v. Makin—the Institute for Justice (IJ) and First Liberty are challenging this Maine law that bans families from participating in a student-aid program if they choose to send their children to religious schools. This law unjustly discriminates against both religious schools and religious families. We could not allow this law to stand.
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February 13th, 2025
Sermon Censorship
Today, First Liberty Institute and the Independence Law Center sent a letter on behalf of Rusty Trubey, a veteran chaplain at the Coatesville VA Medical Center, asking U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins to take immediate action to eliminate a speech code being imposed by the VA and ensure that Chaplain Trubey and his colleagues may preach according to...
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