In this source guide, ReligionLink provides background, tips, suggestions, related stories and relevant sources to help you report the fault lines in the U.S.’s current debate around the limits and liabilities of the First Amendment.

Aaron Fisher is an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. Fisher interned at the U.S. Department of Defense, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (Eastern District of New York) and the New York State Inspector General’s Office. He is particularly interested in the intersections of criminal law, national security, First Amendment issues, […]

David French is an attorney, a decorated veteran and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He has served as senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom. He is a regular contributor to National Review, where he wrote several columns supporting a Supreme Court decision for […]

Margot Cleveland is a lawyer and an adjunct professor for the college of business at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind. She wrote a column for The Federalist, where she is a senior contributor, about why she believes the Supreme Court will rule in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips — which […]

Caroline Mala Corbin is a law professor at the University of Miami who specializes in First Amendment issues, including free speech and religious freedom. She regularly joins amicus briefs on religious issues that are filed with the Supreme Court.

Carrie Severino is the chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network. She previously served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Scott Waller is an associate professor of political science at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. He is a frequent commentator on religion and politics and evangelicals in local and national media.