The Supreme Court enjoys creating catch-22 scenarios. It has generated numerous instances. For example, it holds that the Free Exercise Clause forbids anti-religious discrimination, but also holds ...

The complete absence of any historic claims to a free exercise right to taxpayer-funded religious schools could turn out to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of rulings expected in the coming weeks appears inclined to extend its trend of taking an ...

The First Amendment also protects people of faith with its free exercise clause, which prevents Congress from passing laws that interfere ... They believe government officials can’t name a state ...

Fired Pastor's Ousting During Church Service Did Not Violate His Free Exercise Rights Anthony J. Sirven In Couzens v. City of Forest Park, Ohio, 114 F.4th 571, 574 (6th Cir. 2024), church leaders ...

just as the free exercise clause shields them from more direct infringements on their liberty. Navigating between these two clauses is sometimes tricky. In 1970, for example, the Supreme Court ...

The case pits a modern conservative view of religious liberty against a more traditional view. Conservatives, including those wanting public funding for the Oklahoma charter school, emphasize the Free ...

Some justices sounded sympathetic to the arguments of school proponents that receiving public funds is a religious right protected by the Free Exercise clause, Laser noted. “We saw a number of Supreme ...

A major test of the separation of church and state asks the Supreme Court to allow the country's first religious charter school in Oklahoma.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly strengthened the Free Exercise Clause in cases brought ... They noted, for example, that many charter schools would risk losing vital state ...