By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 26, 2019 The longer you live, the more you see that a lack of integrity often has a viral effect on an organization. Once the compromises begin, they can’t be contained. They’ll seep into every corner of the institution, corrupting good purposes and damaging people’s lives. And so it is with the Southern Poverty Law...

By: Jeremy Dys – dailycaller.com – March 19, 2019 Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced this month that she will no longer enforce a federal law barring religious organizations from providing federally funded educational services to private schools. The action is a natural development to follow President Trump’s 2017 executive order on religious freedom. Trump’s order directed the attorney general to issue...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2019 Rule No. 1 of tort law: The bad guy is the one with the most money to pay you. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people, 20 of them schoolchildren ages six and seven. Lanza killed himself, too. Can’t sue him. Lanza had a history of mental illness...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 18, 2019 Over the weekend, my colleague Kevin Williamson wrote an outstanding piece illuminating the ideology and opportunism behind a Connecticut Supreme Court opinion holding that the manufacturer of the semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook shooting may be held liable for violating state unfair-trade-practices statutes. The legal reasoning behind the ruling, if applied...

By: Lathan Watts – townhall.com – March 11, 2019 In South Carolina the state legislature and the flagship university seem to be at odds over whether college students should be required to study the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist papers. The legislature recently updated the statute requiring study of the founding documents. The president of the...

By: Jeremy Dys – dailywire.com – March 8, 2019 Jack Phillips’ long ordeal appears to be over. After years of litigation and unnecessary protests, including a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, Jack can return to being a cake artist without being forced to choose between his faith and his livelihood. The precedent Jack set in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights...

By: First Liberty Press Release – firstliberty.org – March 6, 2019 First Liberty Institute represents POW/MIA Group that Maintains Remembrance Table at Manchester, New Hampshire VA Medical Center Manchester, NH—First Liberty Institute today sent a letter to Manchester (NH) VA Medical Center (“MVAMC”) officials affirming their decision to display a Bible donated by a WWII veteran. The letter was sent by First...

By: James Wesolek – thefederalist.com – January 28, 2019 If the Texas legislature passes these bills, Christians near and far should be concerned about how their freedoms will be curtailed in the coming years. The 86th Texas legislative session got underway a few weeks ago, and liberals are already going on the offense in the traditional conservative stronghold. Left-leaning legislators have formed Texas’...

By: David Sherfinski & Stephen Dinan – washingtontimes.com – February 27, 2019 Republicans scored a rare victory in the Democrat-controlled House Wednesday, winning a vote to have authorities notify deportation officers any time an illegal immigrant tries to buy a gun. It’s illegal for those in the country without legal status to have firearms, but an average of more than 10 a day...

By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org – February 27, 2019 Watch the Bladensburg WWI Veterans Memorial press conference following the February 27, 2019 oral argument at the Supreme Court. Kevin Bartlett, National Judge Advocate of The American Legion, and Kelly Shackelford, President of First Liberty, discuss the importance of saving the memorial and of preventing other veterans memorials from facing the same...