Big Tech CEOs received yet another tongue-lashing from Republican lawmakers last week. During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, the senators accused them of trying to influence elections by censoring content from conservative users.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday said what many conservatives have been saying for years: Universities are using hate speech policies to punish culturally disfavored views.

Three families in rural areas of Maine without public high schools can send their children to private school but not Christian school on the government’s dime, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

Patients facing death or serious illness can take comfort in visits from their faith leaders. But pandemic-related restrictions have closed many hospital doors to priests, pastors, and rabbis. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights recently helped two Catholics resolve disputes with hospitals about the balance between health concerns and patients’ religious freedom.

An appeals court on Thursday temporarily reinstated Colorado’s COVID-19 restrictions on places of worship.

Yitzchok and Chana Lebovits celebrated last week when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would loosen lockdown restrictions that had closed their daughters’ Orthodox Jewish school. The girls returned to classes this week in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway.

The Supreme Court has another chance to reckon with how much states can infringe on First Amendment rights during the pandemic. Two Chicago-area churches on Wednesday asked the justices to review a federal appeals court decision that upheld Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 orders restricting the size of worship services. It could make a difference for rulings in lower courts across the country.