Free Exercise Clause

Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.

The Supreme Court sided 6-3 against Maine’s education program, which excludes tuition assistance for students attending religious schools.

SCOTUS unanimously ruled against the City of Boston for denying a group the right to fly the Christian Flag outside the entrance of City Hall.

Coach Joe Kennedy’s case at the Supreme Court could result in a major ruling on constitutional rights of free speech and religious liberty, with widespread implications for children, parents, and government employees at a time when those issues are major topics on the national stage.

On Tuesday morning, 36 airmen in the active-duty Air Force, the Air Force Reserve, and the Air National Guard filled a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebraska, challenging the legality of President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on service members.

SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a case regarding a high school football coach who was fired for praying on the field after games.

SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a Maine case on whether students can use state aid to attend schools that provide religious instruction.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia providing foster care services while holding to their beliefs.

Capitol Hill Baptist Church is suing Washington, D.C., for restricting worship services over coronavirus concerns while allowing large groups to roam the city’s streets and camp on sidewalks and in parks.

The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

FEMA announced a new policy on Tuesday to end discrimination against churches, synagogues, and all places of worship. The policy announcement came after three churches in Texas and two synagogues in Florida filed lawsuits to secure disaster relief aid after recent hurricanes.

The Supreme Court added three political-speech cases on Monday to its oral argument docket this year, granting review in one involving pro-life pregnancy centers, another where a man was arrested while criticizing his local government for corruption at a public meeting, and a third where state law prohibited a man from wearing the Gadsden flag or a voter-ID button when he went to his polling place to vote.

President Donald Trump can score a triple win by superseding a policy manual from the Obama administration and allowing churches to help relief efforts in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. It would be good policy and good politics, and more importantly help millions of Americans in desperate need.

In a 7-2 ruling, the court held in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer that states cannot prohibit churches from receiving otherwise generally available benefits based purely on their being a religious institution.

President Trump’s travel ban, the Second Amendment, religious liberty versus LGBT issues, and even the possibility of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement will be addressed, as all eyes are on the Supreme Court on Monday.

Seventeen cases from this year’s Supreme Court term are still pending, with decisions expected in the next eight days. Religious liberty, the constitutional rights of illegal aliens, and free-speech rights to express messages some people find offensive are several of the high-profile issues raised in the remaining cases.

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seems poised to strike down constitutional amendments in 39 states that forbid tax money from going to churches after Wednesday’s oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, unless two procedural issues derail the case at the last minute.

“This case is an ominous sign,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent when the Supreme Court refused today to hear an important religious liberty case, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas joining the June 28 statement expressing Alito’s alarm.

WASHINGTON—Former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-VA) bribery conviction, as well as the constitutionality of state laws banning money from going to religious schools, have joined the Supreme Court’s docket, as the justices on Friday filled eight spots on their docket for cases to be decided by the time the current year’s term ends in June.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today top religious-liberty scholars and lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a state law requiring a person of faith to engage in actions that violate his religious conscience violates the First Amendment, in a case with profound implications for the hot-button issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.