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</div><div></div><div> rww 6 23</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Earlier this month, Right Wing Watch <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-nationalists-seek-to-go-on-offense-to-take-advantage-of-the-far-right-supreme-court/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">reported</a> that religious-right activists are seeking to take advantage of the far-right majority’s control of the Supreme Court to start enacting Christian nationalist policies all across the nation.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kennedy-v-bremerton-school-district-2/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">prayer in schools</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/731824045/supreme-court-cross-can-stand-on-public-land-in-separation-of-church-and-state-c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">crosses erected on public lands</a>, and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095943871/supreme-court-says-boston-unconstitutionally-barred-christian-flag-from-city-hal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">flying Christian flags on public buildings</a>, right-wing activists intend to “go on offense” by pushing Christian nationalist policies at all levels of government and society.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Among those leading the charge is Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty, which was integral to laying the groundwork for the right’s spate of Supreme Court victories. During a recent appearance on an Intercessors For America <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=3374788402773921" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">broadcast</a>, Shackelford announced that his organization has launched a <a href="https://rfia.org/#welcome" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Restoring Faith In America</a> campaign to mobilize far-right Christians to rush into the spaces opened by these court rulings and “occupy it”...</div><div>
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</div><div>trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has become the <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-shopping-courts-texas" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">go-to judge</a> for right-wing groups seeking rulings that advance their political agenda. Kacsmaryk worked at religious-right First Liberty Institute before his judicial nomination; now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href="https://flgov.com/2023/04/10/governor-ron-desantis-makes-four-judicial-appointments-7/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">has gone to that same well</a>, appointing <a href="https://firstliberty.org/team/jordan-pratt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">First Liberty Institute senior counsel Jordan Pratt</a> to the state’s Fifth District Court of Appeal.</div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">First Liberty Institute is <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kelly-shackelford-lgbt-advocates-will-destroy-people-until-we-lose-all-freedom/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hostile</a> to reproductive choice and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cozying-up-to-activists-whove-supported-criminalizing-homosexuality/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">legal</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-leaders-vow-to-defy-laws-on-abortion-sexual-perversion-in-declaration-of-dependence-upon-god/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">equality</a> for LGBTQ Americans. For years, it has sounded <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/how-many-myths-of-anti-christian-persecution-can-kelly-shackelford-cite-in-one-speech-at-least-three/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">false alarms</a> about supposed anti-Christian persecution in the United States. After Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, First Liberty Institute’s president signed a letter <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-lawyer-cleta-mitchell-signs-letter-by-hard-right-leaders-urging-gop-senators-to-contest-swing-state-electors/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">urging GOP senators to contest Electoral College votes</a> from swing states won by President Joe Biden.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Pratt, a member of the Federalist Society, joined First Liberty in 2021. During the Trump administration, Pratt worked at the Justice Department to help Trump fill federal courts with likeminded judges. His nomination by DeSantis was praised by the <a href="https://twitter.com/JaxFedSoc/status/1645966630193594371?s=20" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Federalist Society</a>’s Jacksonville chapter as well as by First Liberty President Kelly Shackelford.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Kacsmaryk’s record suggests what we might expect from a Judge Pratt. In 2019, People For the American Way strongly <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/judicial-nominee-matthew-kacsmaryk-has-expressed-anti-lgbtq-views-and-a-willingness-to-gut-critical-protections/?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">opposed</a> Kacsmaryk’s confirmation, noting his “history of targeting those who do not live according to his particular social and religious beliefs” and <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/judicial-nominee-kacsmaryk-would-put-reproductive-freedom-in-danger/?" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">warning</a>—accurately—that his confirmation would “put reproductive freedom in danger.” Just last week, Kacsmaryk issued a ruling suspending the Federal Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The lawsuit challenging FDA approval of mifepristone was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matthew-kacsmaryk-medication-abortion-mifepristone-abortion-pill-judge-texas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">filed</a> by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful religious-right legal group with a goal of banning abortion nationwide.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In his anti-mifepristone ruling, Kacsmaryk <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/09/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-abortion-ip-vpx.cnn" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">adopted</a> advocacy <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-pill-ruling-analysis-anti-abortion-terms-ideology-rcna78937" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">language</a> from the anti-choice movement, rejecting the medically accurate term “fetus” in favor of “unborn human.” Loyola Law School Professor Jessica Levison has <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/abortion-pill-ruling-texas-judge-zombie-laws-rcna79094" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">described</a> Kacsmaryk’s decision as “riddled with legal and factual errors,” and wrote that his use of an 1870s law, the Comstock Act, “essentially resurrects baseless arguments and once-dead law to wreak havoc on our settled legal principles.” Even the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/matthew-kacsmaryk-decision-mifepristone-abortion-pill-fda-administrative-procedure-act-ce7db52d" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">recognized</a> that Kacsmaryk is “overstepping his authority” in the case.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Florida appeals court judges are appointed by the governor from a list prepared by a judicial nominating commission. After serving for at least a year, they face a yes-or-no retention vote on a general election ballot, potentially winning a six-year term.<div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/desantis-appoints-judge-from-religious-right-group-known-for-anti-choice-anti-lgbtq-stances/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-weight: 700;">Tags: <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/jordan-pratt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Jordan Pratt</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/matthew-kacsmaryk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Matthew Kacsmaryk</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-abortion/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-Abortion</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-choice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-Choice</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-lgbtq/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/courts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Courts</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/religious-liberty/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Liberty</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/first-liberty-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">First Liberty Institute</a></div></div><div>=</div></div><div></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;" lang="en"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">First Liberty Institute is a nonprofit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Christian conservative</a> legal organization<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-Farrell-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,Texas" title="Plano, Texas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Plano, Texas</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a>Prominent in the legal circles on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Christian right</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-RollingStone-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a> the organization litigates in First Amendment cases on religion,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-thomas-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a> and is often referred to as a law firm.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a>First Liberty Institute is headed by Kelly Shackelford<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> who founded the organization in 1997 under the name Liberty Legal Institute.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a> The organization changed its name to Liberty Institute in 2009 and then, in 2016, to First Liberty Institute.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#Prominent_cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Prominent cases</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#Prominent_individuals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Prominent individuals</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Prominent cases[</h2>First Liberty Institute is one of several Christian conservative legal organizations in the United States; others include the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom" title="Alliance Defending Freedom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Center_for_Law_and_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="American Center for Law and Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Center for Law and Justice</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More_Society" title="Thomas More Society" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas More Society</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Conscience_Defense_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Counsel" title="Liberty Counsel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Liberty Counsel</a>, National Legal Foundation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society" title="Christian Legal Society" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Christian Legal Society</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket_Fund_for_Religious_Liberty" title="Becket Fund for Religious Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Becket Fund for Religious Liberty</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-Farrell-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The group has taken stances against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">LGBT rights</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a> Among its most prominent cases are the "Candy Cane Case"; legal actions taken to stop a report on an investigation into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Palin</a> being published; and numerous legal cases filed in Texas courts concerning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">First Amendment</a> and religious freedom issues.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-haag-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>Coach Joe KennedyFirst Liberty Institute represents high school football coach Joseph A. Kennedy in a lawsuit against the Bremerton School District in the state of Washington.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> The dispute centers around the dismissal of the coach after a school policy conflict pertaining to his practice of a prayer after each game.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> The Supreme Court declined to hear the case in January 2019.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> In March 2020, a federal district court ruled against Kennedy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-Clarridge-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> In January 2022, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> In April 2022, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>Maine Tuition ProgramFirst Liberty, alongside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Justice" title="Institute for Justice" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Institute for Justice</a>, represented three families in the Supreme Court case <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_v.Makin" title="Carson v. Makin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Carson v. Makin</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[24]</a> The case centered around the limits of school vouchers offered by state governments to pay for religious-based private schools. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> A Maine law excluded religious schools from a state tuition program, which pays for students to attend private schools. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> In December 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> In June 2022, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the three families, holding that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from otherwise generally available tuition assistance programs violated the Free Exercise Clause. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> The case was remanded to a lower court for further proceedings. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>Oregon Cake Bakers, Aaron and Melissa KleinFirst Liberty represents Aaron and Melissa Klein, who owned a family bakery in Oregon, Sweet Cakes by Melissa. In 2013, they declined to design and create a custom wedding cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding because doing so would violate their religious beliefs. In 2015, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found the couple had violated the state's nondiscrimination statutes and ordered them to pay $135,000 in compensatory damages. That decision was reaffirmed by a ruling from the Oregon Court of Appeals in 2017. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> In 2018, the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a> In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling and directed the Oregon court to review its decision in the wake of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop,Ltd.v.Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission</a>, which favored a Colorado baker who also declined to serve a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> In January 2022, the Oregon Court of Appeals, for a second time, held that the Kleins had illegally discriminated against the same-sex couple, but ordered the state to reconsider the monetary damages. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a>Veterans MemorialsFirst Liberty Institute has litigated veterans memorial cross cases. Among these cases was the Bladensburg WWI Veterans Memorial case, which has been in litigation since 2014, after the American Humanist Association sued to remove the memorial claiming it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a> In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legion_v.American_Humanist_Association" title="American Legion v. American Humanist Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legion v. American Humanist Association</a> upholding the cross memorial, citing that it did not violate the Establishment Clause.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a> In previous years, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the ACLU, and the American Humanist Association have challenged other similar veterans memorial cross cases.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a>Dr. Eric WalshFirst Liberty Institute represented Dr. Eric Walsh in a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Health (DPH), which hired Walsh in 2014 as a public health director for northwest Georgia, and then fired him one week later after reviewing his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Seventh-Day Adventist</a> sermons. Walsh alleged that Georgia DPH had unlawfully discriminated against him based on religion. The state settled the case for $225,000.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a>Religious Expression for Military Service MembersFirst Liberty filed a lawsuit against the Navy and the Department of Defense on behalf of 35 Navy SEALs in November 2021. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a> The suit alleges that the service members had faced a range of military discipline for declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine due to their religious beliefs. In January 2022, a U.S. District Judge issued a preliminary injuction, blocking the Navy and the Department of Defense from punishing the service members and enforcing the vaccine mandate. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a> In March 2022, the Supreme Court issued an order affirming the Biden Administration’s authority to make deployment decisions based on vaccination status. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a>In May 2022, First Liberty Institute, alongside law firm Schaerr Jaffe LLP, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Air Force on behalf of several U.S. Air Force service members. The suit alleges that the Department of Defense is violating the First Amendment by denying several service members a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a>In 2011, First Liberty filed a lawsuit against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Veterans_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs</a> alleging that the department had censored prayers and the use of the words "God" or "Jesus". The Department's response was that its regulations stated that there is no censorship but that the religious preferences of the families of the deceased are respected and that at times families have complained about volunteers and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_of_Foreign_Wars" title="Veterans of Foreign Wars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a> had included religious references in services even though the families had requested that there be none. The Department's response said, "Defendants believe that it should be the family's choice and decision what to have read in accordance with their faith tradition, if any, because it would be improper for others to impose their own religious preferences on a Veteran’s family, especially during this meaningful event".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a> The case was settled in September 2012 after mediation by former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R.Phillips" title="Thomas R. Phillips" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas R. Phillips</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a>The Candy Cane CaseThe "Candy Cane Case" began in 2004, after a student in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,Texas" title="Plano, Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plano, Texas</a> was prohibited by school officials from distributing candy canes with a religious story attached at his school's Christmas party.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-haag-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> In 2011, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fifth_Circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit</a> granted two school principals immunity in the case against the Plano Independent School District.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a> The Liberty Institute appealed the case to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Supreme Court</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-cbn-supreme-court-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a> which refused to hear the case in 2012, upholding the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Prominent individuals[</h2>In November 2016, Ken Klukowski, First Liberty's senior counsel and director of strategic affairs was appointed to head the issue area of "Protecting Americans' Constitutional Rights" in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Donald_Trump#Transition_team" title="Presidential transition of Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump presidential transition team</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[50]</a> Klukowski, later Senior Counsel to Assistant Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Clark" title="Jeffrey Clark" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeffrey Clark</a>, was one of several Trump campaign officials subpoenaed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack" title="United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jan. 6 Select Committee</a> investigation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk" title="Matthew J. Kacsmaryk" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Matthew J. Kacsmaryk</a>, who served as Deputy General Counsel to First Liberty Institute, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer" title="Jeff Mateer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeff Mateer</a>, who previously served as general counsel, were nominated in 2017 by President Trump for District Court positions. Mateer subsequently withdrew after a May 2015 speech where he referred to transgender children as "Satan’s plan" became public.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a> The Senate confirmed Kacsmaryk on June 19, 2019.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/751403169" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"First Liberty Institute - Nonprofit Explorer"</a>. 9 May 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=First+Liberty+Institute+-+Nonprofit+Explorer&rft.date=2013-05-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fprojects.propublica.org%2Fnonprofits%2Forganizations%2F751403169&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFirst+Liberty+Institute" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-Farrell-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; 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(June 21, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/21/donald-trump-evangelicals-meeting-video/86183620/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Trump to evangelicals: Pray for people to vote for me"</a>. USA Today. 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Retrieved March 7, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=USA+Today&rft.atitle=Supreme+Court%27s+latest+church-state+conundrum%3A+Must+a+%27peace+cross%27+memorial+to+World+War+I+vets+come+down%3F&rft.date=2018-11-02&rft.au=Richard+Wolf&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2018%2F11%2F02%2Fsupreme-court-decide-if-peace-cross-war-memorial-can-survive%2F1612766002%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFirst+Liberty+Institute" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-37" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute#cite_ref-37" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFThomsen2019" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thomsen, Jacqueline (June 20, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/regulation/449496-supreme-court-rules-cross-at-state-run-wwi-memorial-can-remain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Supreme Court rules cross at state-run WWI memorial can remain"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a>. 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</div><div>=</div><div>Jeffrey Carl Mateer is an American lawyer. From 2016 to 2020, he served as First Assistant Attorney General of Texas. In September 2017, he was nominated by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> to become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States district judge</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas</a>; however, the nomination was withdrawn in December 2017.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-withdrawn-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> Mateer previously served as general counsel of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute" title="First Liberty Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">First Liberty Institute</a>, a religious liberty advocacy group headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,Texas" title="Plano, Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plano</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-kfile-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> He returned to the Institute, following his resignation from the Attorney General's Office.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-MateerFLI2020-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;" lang="en">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Biography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#Failed_nomination_to_District_Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Failed nomination to District Court</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Biography[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Mateer&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>Mateer earned his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bachelor of Arts</a> with honors from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinson_College" title="Dickinson College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dickinson College</a> and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> with honors from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedman_School_of_Law" title="Dedman School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dedman School of Law</a>. He spent nearly 20 years litigating in private practice, where he handled a range of trial and appellate matters. He then became general counsel and executive vice president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute" title="First Liberty Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">First Liberty Institute</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-whitehouse-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> In two 2015 speeches, he described the issue of transgender children as a deception and "part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan" title="Satan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Satan</a>'s plan".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-dallasnews1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> He also spoke in opposition to state bans on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy" title="Conversion therapy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conversion therapy</a> at a conference hosted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Swanson(pastor)" title="Kevin Swanson (pastor)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kevin Swanson</a>, a pastor who preaches that the Biblical punishment for homosexuality is death.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-kfile-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Mateer said that the legalization of same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">polygamy</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiality" class="mw-redirect" title="Bestiality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bestiality</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-kfile-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>From 2016 to 2020, Mateer served as the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas under Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton" title="Ken Paxton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ken Paxton</a>, supervising the state's active litigation matters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-whitehouse-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> Upon resigning, he filed a complaint against AG Paxton alleging wrongdoing along with other top attorneys in the litigation division.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a>Following his public service, Mateer returned to the First Liberty Institute.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-MateerFLI2020-3" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Failed nomination to District Court[</h2>On September 7, 2017, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> nominated Mateer to serve as a United States District Judge of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas</a>, to the seat vacated by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A.Schell" title="Richard A. Schell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard A. Schell</a>, who assumed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">senior status</a> on March 10, 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-whitehouse2-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> Mateer was recommended to the White House by Senators <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Cornyn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ted Cruz</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-dallasnews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> After Mateer's remarks about transgender children being part of "Satan's plan" and his support for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy" title="Conversion therapy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conversion therapy</a> were publicized in late September 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Cornyn</a>, the senior Republican Senator from Texas and then-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Majority_Whip" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Majority Whip" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Majority Whip</a>, expressed skepticism about Mateer's suitability to sit on the federal bench.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Cornyn and members of a committee that screens Texas judicial candidates said that Mateer had not disclosed the statements.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-dallasnews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Cruz said that he still supported Mateer's nomination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-dallasnews1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> In December 2017, Mateer's nomination for the federal judiciary was withdrawn.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-withdrawn-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> On January 3, 2018, his nomination was returned to the President under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rules_of_the_United_States_Senate,Rule_XXXI" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XXXI" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> On January 8, 2018, the White House renominated 21 of 26 federal judicial nominees who had been returned by the U.S. Senate. Mateer was not among the 21 individuals who were renominated.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mateer#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also[</h2><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_judicial_appointment_controversies" title="Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies" style="background: none rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies</a></li></ul></div><div>=</div><div><div>=</div><div>
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</div><div> Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk (born 1977) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge">United States district judge</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas">United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas</a>. He was nominated to the position by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#Biography">1 Biography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#Federal_judicial_service">2 Federal judicial service</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#See_also">3 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#References">4 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#External_links">5 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Biography</h2>Kacsmaryk received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a>, summa cum laude, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Christian_University" title="Abilene Christian University">Abilene Christian University</a> in 1999 and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> with honors from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_School_of_Law" title="University of Texas School of Law">University of Texas School of Law</a> in 2003.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-whitehouse-1">[1]</a>

From 2003 to 2008, he was an associate in the Dallas office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Botts" title="Baker Botts">Baker Botts</a>, where he focused on commercial, constitutional, and intellectual property litigation. From 2008 through 2013, he was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_United_States_Attorney" title="Assistant United States Attorney">Assistant United States Attorney</a>

(federal prosecutor) in the Northern District of Texas where he was

lead counsel in over 75 criminal appeals and co-counsel in high-profile

criminal and terrorism trials.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-whitehouse-1">[1]</a> In 2013, under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama Administration">Obama Administration</a>,

Kacsmaryk received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in

Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security for his work in United States v. Aldawsari.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-2">[2]</a> He was Deputy General Counsel to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberty_Institute" title="First Liberty Institute">First Liberty Institute</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-Questionnaire-3">[3]</a> He has been a member of the Fort Worth chapter of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society">Federalist Society</a> since 2012.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-Questionnaire-3">[3]</a> He has been a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mass" title="Red Mass">Red Mass</a> Committee for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Forth Worth. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-Questionnaire-3">[3]</a>

<h2>Federal judicial service</h2>On September 7, 2017, Trump nominated Kacsmaryk to serve as a United States District Judge of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas">United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas</a>, to the seat vacated by Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Robinson" title="Mary Lou Robinson">Mary Lou Robinson</a>, who assumed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status" title="Senior status">senior status</a> on February 3, 2016.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-whitehouse2-4">[4]</a> On December 13, 2017, a hearing on his nomination was held before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-5">[5]</a> On January 3, 2018, his nomination was returned to the President under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rules_of_the_United_States_Senate,Rule_XXXI" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XXXI">Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-6">[6]</a> On January 5, 2018, Trump announced his intent to renominate Kacsmaryk to a federal judgeship.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-7">[7]</a> On January 8, 2018, his renomination was sent to the Senate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-8">[8]</a> On January 18, 2018, his nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-9">[9]</a>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association">American Bar Association</a> rated Kacsmaryk "qualified" for the nomination (a ranking below "well qualified").<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:2-10">[10]</a>

However, Senate Democrats and a number of LGBT advocacy groups opposed

his nomination due to his writings and comments on LGBT rights and

women's contraceptive rights.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-12">[12]</a> He has worked on religious liberty cases opposing certain LGBT protections in housing, employment and health care.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:0-13">[13]</a> He has referred to homosexuality as "disordered",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:1-14">[14]</a> and to being transgender as a "delusion" and a "mental disorder".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:0-13">[13]</a> He opposes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v.Wade" title="Roe v. Wade">Roe v. Wade</a> Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:0-13">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:2-10">[10]</a> He opposed the legalization of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarital_sex" title="Premarital sex">premarital sex</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

On January 3, 2019, his nomination was returned to the President under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rules_of_the_United_States_Senate,Rule_XXXI" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XXXI">Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6</a> of the United States Senate. On January 23, 2019, Trump announced his intent to renominate Kacsmaryk for a federal judgeship.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-16">[16]</a> His nomination was sent to the Senate later that day.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-17">[17]</a> On February 7, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-18">[18]</a> On June 18, 2019, the Senate voted 52–44 to invoke cloture on his nomination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-19">[19]</a> On June 19, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a vote of 52–46.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-NBCJune_2019-20">[20]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-:1-14">[14]</a> He received his judicial commission on June 21, 2019.

Kacsmaryk currently presides over the Amarillo Division of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States District Court">United States District Court</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_District_of_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern District of Texas">Northern District of Texas</a>, which encompasses twenty-six counties in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Panhandle" title="Texas Panhandle">Texas Panhandle</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J._Kacsmaryk#cite_note-21">[21]</a>

In 2021, Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of a Trump

administration policy that required that asylum seekers wait outside

U.S. territory while their claims are processed. In Kacsmaryk's order,

he said that the Biden administration had ended the policy without fully

considering the consequences.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-22">[22]</a> His decision was overturned by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> on June 30, 2022.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_J.Kacsmaryk#cite_note-23">[23]</a>

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