News Release For Immediate Release: 5.12.26 Contact: John Manning, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Former Navy Seals Fight for the Rights of School-Age Children’s Religious Liberty The select group of Navy SEALS seek to shield children and their families from the impact of religious discrimination they faced in 2020. Charleston, WV—On behalf […]
President Donald Trump’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government released its report today detailing hundreds of examples of government hostility toward Christians under the Biden Administration and corrective actions taken by the Trump Administration to protect religious liberty for the future.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on Friday issued a preliminary injunction against the Everett, Washington school district, halting discriminatory regulations targeted towards LifeWise, a nonprofit that provides Bible education to public school students during school hours under released time religious instruction laws.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools. First Liberty Institute’s victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District provided new opportunities for displays, education, and monuments reflecting the country’s religious heritage and history.
First Liberty Institute, Williams & Connolly, Church State Council, and Jennifer W. Kennedy filed a petition at the Supreme Court of the United States asking the Justices to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that sided with Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue (“SRFR”) upholding its decision to refuse religious accommodation to eight firefighters known as the Snohomish Eight.
First Liberty Institute and the law firms Haynes and Boone, LLP and Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, LLC sent a demand letter to the City of Rainsville, AL after Total Recovery Ministries was denied a permit to use its property for a discipleship ministry for men struggling with various addictions. The city also sent a “cease-and-desist” demanding that all ministry efforts be stopped.
