Prayers at Duval County School Board meetings: National groups say it violates the First Amendment

Two national advocacy groups sent letters to the Duval County School Board stating the prayers during board meetings may violate the Establishment Clause.
Opinion

The First Amendment is under threat | GUEST COMMENTARY

Opinion: Each of the five protections of the First Amendment — the press, speech, assembly, petition and religion — is being undermined in today’s political climate.
Yahoo

First Amendment, religious rights concerns raised

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASHLAND Concerns about First Amendment and religious rights were raised during Ashland City Commission Thursday. Rachael Crawford ...
Yahoo

First Amendment battles loom over another religious law in Texas

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TEXAS (KTAL/KMSS) — A recent Texas law requires schools to display the Ten Commandments in schools. Now, Texas Attorney General ...
University of Dayton

Is a faith-based charter school a threat to religious freedom, or a necessity to uphold it?

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond April 30, 2025. UD professor Charles J. Russo writes that the litigation reveals built-in tension in the ...
Religion Dispatches

Equal Protection of First Amendment

With all the talk lately about Islam and the whole mosque/cultural center existing two blocks from the fallen World Trade Center, a lot of Christians have been defending their opposition to the ...
USA Today

Red states push religion in public schools. Supreme Court is their endgame. | Opinion

The creeping Christian nationalist plot to force religion into public schools ‒ calculated to provoke legal challenges that could allow the conservative U.S. Supreme Court supermajority to obliterate ...
al.com

Test your Constitutional knowledge: When can free exercise of religion be limited under the First Amendment?

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion but not every practice is automatically protected. From prayer in public schools to vaccine exemptions and workplace dress codes, some acts of faith ...
Case Western Reserve University

First Amendment Clinic Students Argue Religious Accomodations Case in U.S. District Court

In October, Case Western Reserve University School of Law First Amendment Clinic students Makela Hayford, Ginger Pinkerton and Nathan Venesky, along with First Amendment Fellow Sara Coulter, completed ...
Houston Public Media

The First Amendment may not always mean what you think it means

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights establishes rights to speech, religion, press, and assembly. Monday night in Austin and Dallas, police broke up protests in the streets over the federal ...
The Daily Signal

Supreme Court Considers Whether the First Amendment Allows ‘Religious Charter Schools’

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. One of the Supreme Court’s last argued cases of the 2024-25 term may ...
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Are religious liberty cases redefining the First Amendment?

Debates over religious liberty have intensified in recent years, prompting renewed scrutiny of how the First Amendment is interpreted and applied. Courts across the United States are weighing ...