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 ...

The Roberts court is often treated as especially protective of the First Amendment. It is true that the court has reshaped ...

The First Amendment and the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation both occurred in the autumn of 1789. George Washington issued a proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer" just ...

Under constitutional case law, students must initiate and lead such clubs, and staff are limited to a non-participatory ...

At South Florida's immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," multiple constitutional violations over recent months have exposed that religious rights are being treated as revocable ...

A Florida House resolution aims to ask voters to protect students and others from discrimination against voluntary religious expression in public schools. Rep. Chase Tramont, R-Port Orange, filed the ...

There is a widespread assumption in American political discourse that individual rights are due to us because we are human beings. In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke anchored the right ...

The First Amendment provides protections for religious liberty and free speech, but what happens when those rights come into conflict? The Georgia legislature is attempting to answer that question ...

PORTSMOUTH — Anthony Ferola, a 17-year-old Portsmouth High School senior, grew religious his freshman year, using prayer as a way of addressing anxiety and later as a source of comfort following his ...