Dear  John,

As you know, our nation’s courts have been ground zero in a seminal battle between freedom and tyranny all year long. It’s what we call The Essential Fight.

This is a fight that will last much longer than any election. It’s is a fight we must win.

And it’s a fight we ARE winning.

Trust me, when even the ultra-liberal Ninth Circuit is ruling in favor of religious freedom—you KNOW a special “sea-change” moment is happening! I’ll explain this more below.

The proof has been four historic years in the making, as the Trump administration transformed the federal judiciary by appointing over 230 Constitution-friendly judges. And it’s an effort YOU played an instrumental part in through your support of First Liberty’s in-depth research and analysis on the records of those nominated for these positions.

And now, we are seeing the fruits of this hard-fought endeavor.

As of this very week, we have won victories overturning unconstitutional lockdown mandates at every single level of our nation’s federal courts.

• Earlier this year, you might remember we WON at the District Court level, the first victory in our nation’s history for churches during a pandemic, when Judge Justin Walker overturned the local mayor’s unlawful order and affirmed the right of churches to safely hold worship services.
  
  
• The Supreme Court has ruled THREE times—the most recent just two days ago—overturning oppressive occupancy limits placed on religious gatherings in New York, California, and Colorado, and affirming that church gatherings cannot be restricted if secular gatherings are not subject to the same restrictions.
  
  
• And even the historically far-left Ninth Circuit has now ruled TWICE in favor of churches’ freedom to hold worship services, referencing the Supreme Court’s religious liberty precedent set in the aforementioned cases.
  
  

As one of the Ninth Circuit judges, Mark Bennett, put it:

“I think the Supreme Court has made it very clear that when you treat bike repair shops and liquor stores and the like far more favorably than houses of worship, you are not meeting the applicable First Amendment test.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. And as you might’ve guessed, Judge Bennett was a recent Trump administration appointee in 2018. Is it any coincidence that now, just two years later, the court has actually started to rule the right way for the first time in decades?

This seismic shift was only possible through your faithful prayers and financial support.

Now, would you help us capitalize on the incredible opportunities for victory by renewing your support for First Liberty today?

This new majority of reliable conservative judges is only as good as the number of religious liberty cases they’re able to rule on. And if the events of this past year are any indication, there will be no shortage of religious hostility cases to fight in the coming year.

We must meet the far-left enemies of freedom on the battlefront with a full arsenal, and take advantage of the seeds we have sown over the past four years.

Now is the time to reap the harvest of victory.

Please join the fight today! Because our best hope for victory isn’t just a reclaimed court system—it’s the loyalty and generosity of friends like you.

Sincerely, 

Kelly

Kelly Shackelford
President, CEO & Chief Counsel
First Liberty Institute