free exercise

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The schools, joined by Amish parents, filed suit, alleging a violation of their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Legal experts note that faith-led protests often invoke First Amendment protections for both free exercise of religion and free assembly, making these clashes particularly sensitive.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

A federal judge in Kentucky and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected her claims based on the free exercise of religion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

And Sotomayor held that, under the free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment, a state cannot favor certain faiths or denominations over others.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2025

One of these was the free exercise of the Catholic religion; the other, that this exercise of religion should be public.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, February, 1865 by Various