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Keisha Toni Russell is Senior Counsel with First Liberty Institute where she focuses on religious liberty in education. Keisha is the author of Uncommon Courage: Defending Truth and Freedom While There is Still Time.

Keisha clerked for the Honorable James C. Ho at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Keisha was a special education teacher in Atlanta. Keisha is most passionate about protecting religious freedom in America’s schools.

Keisha’s religious liberty commentary has been published in FoxNews.com, Washington Examiner, The Daily Signal, Real Clear Religion, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, WORLD Magazine, and others. She’s been a guest on FOX News, CBN, and other national stations.

Keisha is licensed to practice law in New York, Texas, and Florida.

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June 2022 Graduation season a time for student freedom, not censorship

When our Nation’s Founding Fathers wrote the Establishment Clause into the Bill of Rights, they envisioned it as a protective device – a means of safeguarding citizens from a federally-mandated religion. In just over two hundred years, it has instead become a weapon often wielded by government bureaucrats to stamp out any vestige of religion from our public life. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito even warned that religious liberty is "fast becoming a disfavored right."

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