By: Phil Gramm and Jeb Hensarling – wsj.com – September 3, 2025 The central bank differs from other agencies in that the power to coin money belongs to Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value. Congress, in fulfilling that delegated responsibility, created the Federal Reserve. In carrying out narrowly defined monetary policy, the Fed isn’t...

President Trump has proposed a new census that would not count undocumented people, which has been met with criticism from Democrats and the media, but there were also issues with the 2020 census t…

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.

After President Trump won the Electoral College and the popular vote in the 2024 election, a New York Times op-ed says that Democrats must change the rules to win. The piece is titled: “Abolish the Senate.” “End the Electoral College.” “Pack the Court.” The subhead reads: “Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.”

The European Union’s Digital Services Act is a heavy-handed power play designed to silence dissenting voices from the global digital dialogue.

First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit and motion for preliminary injunction against the Town of Chapin, South Carolina on behalf of local resident Ernest Giardino after he was told a permit was required to hold a sign and share his faith on a public right of way.

More than 20 Friend-of-the-Court Briefs Urge Supreme Court to Overturn Santa Fe v. Doe In a show of overwhelming support at the Supreme Court of the United States, First Liberty Institute’s petition in Cambridge Christian School v. FHSAA, filed alongside attorneys from Bois Schiller Flexner LLP, Winston and Strawn, and Jones Day, received more than twenty friend-of-the-court briefs.  The briefs,...

Fresh from the Independence Day weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court is handing President Donald Trump another victory, backing his administration in downsizing the

Judicial coup expands. I missed the part of the Constitution that allows federal judges to override the president and now apparently congressional legislation because of their ‘feelings’. Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, previously declared that all the illegal aliens could remain here because “it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands...