By: Kristen Waggoner – wsj.com – October 5, 2025 The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. The Anti-Defamation League last week retired its “Glossary of Extremism” amid backlash for having designated Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA as an extremist organization. The ADL isn’t alone in applying such inflammatory labels. Months before Kirk’s assassination,...

Frisco, TX—Today, First Liberty Institute praised the Frisco, TX Independent School District (“ISD”) for granting initial approval for a new Daughters of Our Living Lord & Savior (“DOLLS”) club to meet on campus at Reedy High School. The club’s purpose is to further conversation about Jesus Christ by sharing the gospel, speaking about Christian principles, and encouraging girls to become...

The President’s Religious Liberty Commission Hears From Teachers and Coaches Regarding Threats to Religious Liberty Testimony presented to the Commission based on a wide range of threats to the religious liberty rights of teachers and religious schools. […]

President Trump Recognizes Two First Liberty Clients at Religious Liberty Commission.

The United States District Court for the Western District of New York ordered the State of New York to pay over $817,000 in attorneys’ fees to His Tabernacle Family Church (“His Tabernacle”), a nondenominational church in Horseheads, New York.

A defense of religious freedom and a critique of theocracy in modern governance.

Today, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas-San Antonio division issued a decision blocking Texas’s Ten Commandments law.  The following statement may be attributed to Matt Krause, Of Counsel for First Liberty Institute. We are extremely disappointed federal courts continue to defy Supreme Court precedent by striking down constitutional statutes that require the posting of the...

Today, First Liberty Institute and the law firms Mayer Brown LLP and Ganguly Brothers Misula PLLC announced that the Grand Island Central School District will allow Sabrina Steffans to design her parking space with her original submission that included a Bible verse and religious images.

The Trump administration updated HHS rules in 2017 to create an exemption for employers that held religious or moral objections to the contraception mandate.

First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of Grace Church St. Louis (MO) and New Way Church (FL) in support of a joint motion for the entry of a consent judgement approving the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS”) agreement that churches and religious organizations will no longer...