By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org – June 23, 2020 Delaware Town that Banned Nativity Scene from Annual Christmas Display Sued by Knights of Columbus Rehoboth Beach, DE—Today, on behalf of the local Knights of Columbus council, First Liberty Institute, Jones Day, and Morton, Valihura & Zerbato, LLC, filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, claiming religious...

By: First Liberty Live – firstliberty.org – June 25, 2020 R. Albert Mohler Jr. Discusses the Continued Constitutional Crisis with Kelly Shackelford The recent protests across America have focused a new and powerful spotlight on the ongoing discrimination against local faith communities in key hotspots. Joining Kelly Shackelford to discuss this crucial issue and many more is leading theologian and president of...

By: Lathan Watts – firstliberty.org – May 29, 2020 Readers of FLI Insider are likely more aware than most of the legal battles being waged across the country to preserve the right of every American, no matter their faith tradition, to live according to their most sacred beliefs. Still, the cultural aspect of preserving this foundational principle provides the context in which...

By: Mark Hemingway – realclearpolitics.com – June 9, 2020 Two weeks ago, if you’d asked what American institution was most intolerant of dissenting opinion, preoccupied with promoting radical ideology, and prone to erupting into disruptive temper tantrums, the answer would have been easy. Now it’s not so clear – the hysteria on college campuses has spread to America’s newsrooms. Over the...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – June 3, 2020 Plaintiff in Supreme Court’s Religious Liberty Altering Smith Decision Asks Justices to Protect Faith-Based Adoption AgenciesFirst Liberty Institute files friend-of-the-court brief in key religious liberty case at the Supreme Court of the United States Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, in which the U.S....

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – May 27, 2020 Kelly Shackelford joins Shannon Bream to discuss the ongoing government overreach in California as churches throughout the state ban together in opposition of Governor Gavin Newsome’s most recent order restricting in-person services. Last Friday, President Trump declared in-person church services and religious gatherings as being “essential”. For many, the hope was that...

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: Alan M. Dershowitz – wsj.com – May 13, 2020 The Constitution limits the jurisdiction of federal judges to actual cases and controversies. They may not offer advisory opinions or intrude on executive or legislative powers, except when the other branches have exercised them in an unconstitutional manner. Federal judges are umpires deciding matters about which litigants disagree. If 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: Ben Shapiro – dailysignal.com – May 13, 2020 This week, former President Barack Obama reemerged from hibernation to lecture Americans about the threat to rule of law posed by the Trump administration. After Attorney General William Barr announced that the Department of Justice would be dropping its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had...