The following statement regarding “Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” issued by the Trump Administration may be attributed to Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel for First Liberty Institute:
We thank President Trump for his strong efforts to protect America’s first freedom—religious freedom. These revisions to the Guidelines on Prayer and Religious Expression ensure that the religious liberty of students in public schools is protected. The Supreme Court made it clear in our victory for Coach Joe Kennedy that America’s students and teachers are free to exercise their faith in school. We will continue to fight to ensure that every school in the nation gets that message.
First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the City of Columbus demanding local resident James Anthony be allowed to share his life-affirming messages to women near the Columbus Women’s Health Organization after being told “you can’t say these things” by local police.
Law firm Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of First Liberty Institute at the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal enumerating the ways that the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) corresponds with and differs from federal civil rights law Title VII.
First Liberty Institute Senior Research Fellow, Director of Religious Liberty in the States, and Regent University Professor Mark David Hall, along with Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Director of the Conscience Project, recently published an article in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal detailing the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments in the history and tradition of the United States.
First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on behalf of The Fraternal Order of Eagles. The brief supports a motion filed by Indiana Governor Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita to vacate a 2000 court order that barred a Ten Commandments monument from the Statehouse grounds.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the District of Columbia, First Liberty Institute, and the law firm of Steptoe, LLP on behalf of WallBuilder Presentations (“WallBuilders”) asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to strike down the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) advertising restrictions on issue and religious ads as violations of the First Amendment.
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