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For the second year in a row, during the main session of The American Legion National Convention, First Liberty President and CEO Kelly Shackelford presented on Tuesday the Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. Religious Liberty Award to a champion of religious freedom. Named after Phil Onderdonk, the Legion’s longtime judge advocate […]

Empty classrooms came to life again this week as students from kindergarten to college headed back to school. And in a world when campuses are no longer always the safe havens that families wish they were, there is one thing no student or teacher should ever be required to sacrifice: […]

First Liberty cases appeared in over 1,000 media stories between January and July 2016, according to a report released by First Liberty Institute’s Media Team in early August. The First Liberty Media Report details the mainstream media’s coverage of First Liberty’s clients and cases, underscoring what president Kelly Shackelford says […]

In April, First Liberty made history, arguing along side a former U.S. Solicitor General in one of the few religious freedom cases to ever grace the highest court for the United States military. The case was United States v. Sterling, in which U.S. Marine LCpl Monifa Sterling was court-martialed for […]

The Texas Attorney General issued a legal opinion Monday affirming the constitutionality of one Texas judge’s volunteer chaplaincy program and courtroom opening ceremonies. The opinion comes nearly two years after the secularist Iowa-based Freedom From Religion Foundation complained about Judge Wayne Mack’s practices to the Texas State Commission on Judicial […]

On Tuesday, First Liberty Institute filed a major federal lawsuit on behalf of Coach Joe Kennedy against the Bremerton Independent School District in Washington State. The lawsuit alleges that the school district violated Coach Kennedy’s First Amendment rights to free speech and to freely express his religion when it fired […]