Our rights? They don’t come from men in robes or marble halls. They’re not handed out like candy for good behavior. They come from God, pure and unearned. Life. Liberty. Joy that doesn’t depend on approval. The Founders said it, but grace said it first: you’re born with these. Not because you’re worthy. Because you’re…
Supreme Court to Weigh Constitutionality of Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that will determine whether Idaho’s 2020 law prohibiting transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Idaho law, known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, bans transgender females from competing…
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Whether Prior Conviction Bars Future Constitutional Challenge
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Olivier v. City of Brandon, a case that could reshape how and when individuals convicted under local laws can seek prospective relief in federal court. The case centers on Gabriel Olivier, a Christian preacher who was fined in 2021 for violating a Mississippi city…
Founders' First Freedom Sponsors Trans-Atlantic Conference on Religious Liberty in Switzerland
The four-day gathering in blended collegial debate with practical strategy as jurists and scholars compared U.S. and European paths on religious-freedom law.
Denaturalization Threat Revives Red Scare Echoes and Legal Showdowns
Justice Department directive broadens citizenship revocation amid narrowed judicial remedies and lack of legal counsel
Policy by Injunction? A Legal Era Faces Its Reckoning
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. CASA that district courts typically lack the authority to issue nationwide injunctions against federal policies. The decision redefines a longstanding strategy used by Republican attorneys general and interest groups who, over the past decade, have repeatedly turned to federal courts to block high-profile…
Citizenship on Trial: The Long, Uneasy Life of the Fourteenth Amendment
From the Founders’ deliberate silence on enslaved people to Friday\’s Supreme Court ruling, America’s promise of birth-right citizenship has zigzagged through two centuries of conflict.
Correction – Trump's birthright citizenship order only applies to children born on or after 2/19/2025
In a recent piece, I incorrectly indicated that President Trump\’s executive order on birthright citizenship applied retroactively. In fact it applies only to children born after February 19, 2025. This clarification remains accurate: the executive order does not retroactively affect individuals born before that date. The corrected version of the piece which most importantly highlights…
URGENT: Supreme Court Limits Judicial Authority Over Presidential Orders, as Trump Administration Challenges Core Principles of the Fourteenth Amendment
Decision restricting nationwide injunctions marks latest development in broader effort targeting birthright citizenship protections established after the Civil War.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Backs Parents in Opt-Out Fight Over LGBTQ+ Storybooks
6–3 ruling finds Montgomery County’s no-opt-out policy violates free-exercise rights; preliminary injunction ordered while case returns to lower courts