US attorneys ignoring Trump's orders to prioritize religious liberty
Repeatedly, during his campaign for President in 2016, President Trump promised to protect religious freedom, gaining broad support from both the evangelical community and conservative Catholics in the process. And repeatedly, during his presidency, President Trump has taken actions showing that he takes that promise seriously. In the last few weeks, liberals were demanding that the President make climate change the focus of U.N. meetings in New York, but President Trump chose instead to make religious liberty his focus at the September 2019 meetings.
Seventeen months ago, we at Public Advocate decided to check into whether the perpetual bureaucracy — aka the Swamp — was implementing — or ignoring — President Trump’s religious liberty reforms. Here is what we found.
Unfortunately, it seems that protecting religious liberty has not been all that important to the U.S. Attorneys nationwide....