The White House rightly noted that, while “antisemitic incidents most directly and intensely affect the Jewish community, antisemitism threatens all of us.”

The Department of Education issued new guidance on prayer and religious expression in public schools, emphasizing that although school officials “may not promote or favor religion or coerce the consciences of students,” schools are not “religion-free zones.”

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlighted worsening conditions for religious freedom in many parts of the world in its annual report.

The Texas state Senate passed four measures in April related to religion in public schools, some of which are raising significant religious liberty concerns for public school students and their parents.

Justices questioning Groff’s attorney explained their concern about overturning a previous court ruling interpreting a statute that Congress could change if it desired. In other words, they seemed more interested in defending the principle of statutory stare decisis than they were defending the “more than de minimis” standard established in Hardison.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an Indiana high school music teacher’s claim that his dismissal for refusing to use transgender students’ preferred names and pronouns violated his religious liberty rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

A strong, bipartisan majority defeated a problematic voucher amendment to the Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R. 5).

BJC filed comments in support of the regulations proposed by nine federal agencies that restore religious liberty protections to individuals who receive taxpayer-funded services.

In a brief filed in Groff v. DeJoy, BJC joined other groups in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that employers can deny a religious accommodation request only if it will impose a “significant difficulty or expense.”

As state legislative sessions are in full swing across the country, several are considering bills on issues related to religious liberty.