A diverse coalition of faith groups sued the Trump administration Feb. 9 to challenge the legality and religiously narrow makeup of its Religious Liberty Commission. President Donald Trump established the commission in 2025 by executive order “to defend the religious…
Florida and Texas AGs say they won’t enforce antidiscrimination laws
The chief legal officers of Florida and Texas said they will not enforce state anti-discrimination laws they consider unconstitutional. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a 14-page opinion on Martin Luther King Jr. Day targeting more than 80 anti-discrimination measures…
‘Yes in God’s backyard’ addresses housing crisis
Faith-based organizations are chipping away at the nation’s affordable housing crisis by focusing on projects that directly address challenges in their own communities, according to a nonprofit community development organization. More and more, churches are taking a “yes in God’s…
Kamehameha Schools gets court permission for free tuition
Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii has received a state court’s approval to offer free tuition in part to protect it from lawsuits like one currently pending against its admissions policies. The K-12 private school with campuses on three islands was founded…
Minnesota educators file suit against Trump administration
The Trump administration faces yet another lawsuit in connection with its policy allowing immigration enforcement operations at sensitive locations such as churches, hospitals and schools. A coalition of Minnesota educators and school districts filed federal litigation Feb. 4 to prevent…
Group documents 20 times ICE and CBP shot civilians in past year
The cruelty of U.S. immigration enforcement operations can be counted in rising body counts, attacks against children and families and in the dehumanizing rhetoric federal officials are using toward immigrants and American citizens, according a report by an immigrant rights…
Judge rules against ICE blocking Congressional visits
Members of Congress may make unannounced inspection visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, a federal judge ruled Feb. 2. The order by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., temporarily prevents the Department of Homeland Security from…
‘These are not law enforcement tactics’
The Trump administration is endangering the very American communities it claims to be protecting through drastic immigration enforcement efforts, a Southern law enforcement official said. “Our role is to keep our communities safe, and what we’re witnessing all across this…
Anti-ICE church sign gets a chilly reception
A Baptist church near Rochester, N.Y., was prepared to stand its ground when a municipal official demanded it change the wording on the sign in front of the building: “DO JUSTICE, LOVE KINDNESS, ABOLISH ICE.” A code enforcement officer called…
Court orders are melting ICE
A federal judge in Minnesota canceled a contempt-of-court hearing for the leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but took the opportunity to chastise the agency for ignoring at least 96 court orders this month alone. “This list should give pause…
Great Rivers Fellowship supports bombed synagogue
A network of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi expressed grief and solidarity with a Jewish congregation targeted by an arsonist earlier this month. “An attack on a place of worship is an assault on one of…
He wanted to be a prison chaplain but was told he had to be Christian
A Maryland county and a Christian prison ministry have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by an imam barred from serving as a jail chaplain because he is Muslim. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced the $195,000 settlement for Edrees…