These States Are Leading on Restoring Religious Freedom

Oklahoma, Florida, and Iowa have embraced the Supreme Court’s recent First Amendment rulings.

Nicole Stelle Garnett, Michael A. Helfand, Oklahoma, Florida, and Iowa Are Restoring Religious Freedom, City Journal, June 1, 2026

Tracking and Ending Religious Discrimination: A new project sponsored by a coalition of organizations seeks to track the various ways that federal and state programs discriminate against religious participants in a range of funding programs despite a series of Supreme Court cases holding such discriminatory treatment unconstitutional. The Religious Discrimination Tracker is a project of the EPIC Coalition (a multi-faith coalition that focuses on education), the Teach Coalition, the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic, and the Notre Dame Educational Law Project. The site seeks to identify ways to ensure equal access to funding by religious participants, particularly in education. In this webinar, Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett (Notre Dame Law) will discuss this new project and expand on her argument in a November 2024 Wall Street Journal op-ed that a range of federal programs “reflect” an outdated understanding of the First Amendment that assumes the Constitution requires the exclusion of religious expression from public life and programs.”

Michael A. Helfand, Are Charter Schools Public Schools? The Question That Has Divided Educators Now Has Religious Implications, JTA News, February 14, 2025