The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

Abstract: Freedom of religion is at the heart of the American understanding of liberty. Under our constitutional order, the free exercise of religion is not a mere matter of toleration but an ...

Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal organization devoted to protecting religious freedom and other First Amendment rights, joined with Inspire Insight, an investment tool that provides data on the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on May 22, blocking religious charter schools. But the court could still reshape religious liberty in the United States with decisions in two other cases. One ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the First Amendment’s religious-freedom protections prevent the city of Philadelphia from refusing to contract with a Catholic foster-care agency ...

Churches can endorse candidates from the pulpit without endangering their tax-exempt status, the IRS said in a Texas court ...

“The Dred Scott of First Amendment Law.” Those jarring words were offered before Congress in 1993 to explain why there was such an urgent need for passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration ...