Press Statement For Immediate Release: 4.7.22 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Statement by Religious Liberty Expert and Constitutional Attorney Kelly Shackelford on Today’s Senate Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court Washington, DC—Today, the United States Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as an Associate Justice to […]
News Release For Immediate Release: 4.5.22 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Court Hears Oral Argument as Texas Justice of the Peace Seeks to Overturn Decision Invalidating Invocations in Courtroom The practice is consistent with the nation’s rich historic tradition of opening judicial proceedings with invocations New Orleans, LA—Attorneys with […]
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What a difference a day makes. Within twenty-four hours, the United States Supreme Court demonstrated the lengths to which it will go to protect a death row inmate’s religious freedom while declining to protect religious freedom for 35 members of the Naval Special Warfare community.
Late last week, the United States Supreme Court slightly narrowed an injunction protecting 35 Navy SEALs from the Department of Defense’s unlawful Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The SEALs, like thousands of their fellow sailors, each sought and were denied religious accommodations from the mandate. Without any evidence or consideration of the numerous exceptions to the government’s mandate, let alone the ever-changing nature of COVID, its variants, or natural immunity, the Navy flatly rejects all religious accommodations for active members.
News Release For Immediate Release: 3.31.22 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Massachusetts City Refuses to Allow Local Congregation to Open Private Religious School Citing Religious Beliefs City officials in Somerville, MA, refuse to grant church permission to open school after expressing hostility toward its religious beliefs regarding science, sexuality, […]