By: Reuters – cnbc.com – June 4, 2018 The Supreme Court on Monday handed a narrow victory to a Christian baker from Colorado who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the claims brought against Jack Phillips, saying it had...

By: U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) – sessions.house.gov – March 15, 2018 U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the passage of a critical measure to protect American students and campuses across the country: “Last week I organized a meeting between our local FBI Special Agent in Charge and local law enforcement agents, elected officials and superintendents...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2018 After reading the FBI’s latest report on active-shooter incidents in the United States, two things are increasingly clear. First, the United States has a growing problem with actual or attempted spree killers. And second, armed and alert citizens can be part of the solution. Let’s begin with the problem. The FBI...

By: Lydia Wheeler – thehill.com – May 23, 2018 A federal district court judge on Wednesday ruled that President Trump can’t block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said President Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum and blocking people...

By: Sheryl Attkisson – the hill.com – May 23, 2018 It may be true that President Trump illegally conspired with Russia and was so good at covering it up he’s managed to outwit our best intel and media minds who’ve searched for irrefutable evidence for two years. (We still await special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings.) But there’s a growing appearance...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2018 Constitutional freedoms will die if we forget the importance of defending them even for those whom we hate. Democratic congressman Ted Lieu is at it again. Days after tweeting that Michael Cohen’s decision to take the Fifth in the Stormy Daniels civil litigation was “powerful confirmation that the US Attorney’s Office...

By: staff – firstliberty.org – April 2018 Scott Squires has served his country for 25 years, first as an enlisted soldier, and now as a Chaplain in the United States Army. No chaplain in the military can serve without an endorsement by a recognized religious organization. The North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – April, 2018 The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not review the case Livingston Christian School v. Genoa Charter Township, in which attorneys for First Liberty Institute and Covington & Burling, LLP represent Livingston Christian School. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that it is not a burden...

By: Jerry Newcombe – mobile.wnd.com – April 17, 2018 FOR GOD AND COUNTRY After a recent column on “fake news,” someone sent me an email accusing me of propagating fake news by saying the Bible had anything to do with the founding of America. The email stated the common charge that the Constitution was the product of men of the...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 17, 2018 On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for his more mainstream partners to defect en masse.” Yet with few...