The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge New Jersey has fought city hall for the last four years. The city rejected 9 applications, held 39 public hearings and buried the Islamic Society in endless paperwork to deny them access to build the mosque. Learn more about how the Department of Justice helped defend religious freedom at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

A Freshman at Georgia State University was requested by her professor to remove her niqab, a religious head covering worn by some Muslim women, but the university stepped in. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

Animal activists threatened the Chabad of Irvine, a small Orthodox Jewish congregation in California for its historic religious practice involving the humane killing of a chicken. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

An animal-rights group targeted Orthodox Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur for conducting a traditional religious practice. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

Bernie Sanders questions religious Christian beliefs of Senate nominee, despite article VI of the Constitution. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

A long standing ban in the Tennessee Constitution prevented ministers from seeking elected office until 1977 despite an entire Civil War being fought to protect the rights of citizenship. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

The 2,000 year-old Orthodox Jewish Tradition will continue as it always has for the foreseeable future for the Chabad of Irvine, thanks to the defense by First Liberty Institute. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

Randall Krause filed a lawsuit against the Tulsa County Library Commission, claiming their recycling program contained “fake” recycling bins and that it victimized him and other adherents of environmentalism. Learn what the court had to say at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

Nonetheless, recent news out of Carson City, Nevada reveals that some lawmakers in “The Battle Born State” have initiated legislation that would delete the state’s laws protecting the religious conscience of employers. Learn more about the proposed legislation at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.

Mia Komarevic, a member of the Serbian East Orthodox Church, filed a lawsuit against her former employer, the fashion company Chanel. Learn more at FirstLiberty.org/Briefing.