News Release For Immediate Release: 10.11.20 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Americans Say: Don’t Ask About Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith Poll commissioned by First Liberty Institute delivered to Sen. Lindsey Graham ahead of confirmation hearings starting this week. Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute sent to Sen. Lindsey Graham, Chairman of […]
Press Statement For Immediate Release: 10.7.20 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Texas City Threatens to Take Property from Church First Liberty Institute defending church from the City of Duncanville’s Dallas, TX—Today, First Liberty Institute and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a motion to dismiss the City of Duncanville’s condemnation […]
By Lathan Watts, Director of Public Affairs: “You can’t handle the truth!” With that exclamatory pronouncement, Jack Nicholson launched into the soliloquy which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the film “A Few Good Men.”
By Mike Berry, General Counsel: In January 2014, the Department of Defense revised DOD Instruction 1300.17, the regulation that governs the accommodation of religious practices within the military. Shortly thereafter, I was invited on behalf of First Liberty Institute to testify before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee about the threats to religious freedom in the military.
By Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO and Chief Counsel: Thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 presidential election will be one unlike any other. However, one issue that proved to be a deciding factor for many voters in 2016 will remain as important, if not more, during this cycle: judicial appointments.
Press Statement For Immediate Release: 9.26.20 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Statement of First Liberty Institute and Kelly Shackelford on Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett Washington, DC—President Donald Trump tonight nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to the United […]