U.S. Representative Keith Self (R-TX) introduced the Military Chaplain Act of 2025 in the House defining the purpose, role, duties, and professional qualification requirements for military chaplains.
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have introduced the Reaffirming Every Servicemember’s Trust Over Religious Exemptions (RESTORE) Act in the U.S. Senate. The legislation requires the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish a Special Review Board to audit the service-wide handling of religious accommodation requests related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Last year, First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP announced a settlement with the U.S. Department of the Navy on behalf of thousands of Navy service members who had challenged the military’s vaccine mandate in federal court.
First Liberty Institute and attorneys at Jones Day announced that the IRS closed its investigation of Grace Church in St. Louis, Missouri. The IRS’s decision to close its investigation, first opened in 2022, during the local school board elections where the church researched candidate websites and reported that information to church members.
First Liberty Institute and Winston & Strawn LLP, on behalf of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, the Coalition for Jewish Values, the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, and the Independence Law Center filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of Dr. Peter Gross, urging the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant him a new trial after his first was scheduled on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar and has been observed by faithful Jews for millennia.
First Liberty Institute and the law firm Mayer Brown LLP announced that the Wasatch County (UT) School District will now allow first grade teacher Taryn Israelson to post a voluntary prayer support chain in the school’s faculty lounge after she was previously told it must be removed.
First Liberty Institute announced today that the West Ward (MI) Elementary students whose songs were nearly censored for their religious content will now be allowed to sing in the school talent show.
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