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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 […]

A new rule from the American Bar Association has the potential to punish free speech and religious freedom. First Liberty Institute and a top member of the Reagan administration are speaking out against it. Kelly Shackelford was joined by Edwin Meese, III, former U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan […]

By: Christine Roe If you were asked to name the most important moment in American history, what would you say? The Battle of Yorktown? The end of World War II? There is one of these important moments in our history that is largely overlooked by history teachers today. At the […]