A school prayer battle in northwest Florida that has spread to the state legislature is a hugely messy example of how the First Amendment’s religious freedom The idea that people’s religious views ...
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the free ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued a legal opinion arguing the state law that requires charter schools to be “nonsectarian” and “nonreligious” likely ...
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 ...
Two education entities are pursuing a federal lawsuit to strike down a Colorado state constitutional amendment that prohibits public funding for religious schools, arguing it violates the rights of ...
On this day in 1878, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Reynolds v. United States, on whether a federal law banning bigamy violated the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. (The court ...
The church has moved to dismiss the case because of the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine—a legal principle rooted in the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause that limits secular courts’ authority ...
Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and ...