Steve West

1 week ago | wng.org | Steve West |Mary Reichard

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: parental rights and free speech collide. MARY REICHARD, HOST: Two dads wanted to quietly protest a high school’s decision to let a male student identifying as female to play on their daughters’ soccer team. What happened next raises constitutional questions. BROWN: Joining us now with the details is Steve West—attorney, former federal prosecutor, and writer on religious liberty for WORLD Digital. REICHARD: Good morning, Steve.

Jan 16, 2025 | wng.org | Steve West

On Wednesday morning, Brooke Henderson, a Springfield, Mo., special education teacher, waited in a St. Louis hotel for the full 11 judges of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear her case. In a rare move last year, the court threw out its own panel’s unanimous ruling in the lawsuit that Henderson and her colleague Jennifer Lumley filed over three years ago contesting controversial “anti-racist” training mandated by their school district.

Jan 10, 2025 | wng.org | Steve West

A chilly, wintry wind blew outside the Supreme Court Friday morning, as TikTok attorney Noel Francisco, who served as U.S. solicitor general during the first Trump administration, faced stiff questioning from justices inside the court. TikTok sued the Biden administration over a law that a bipartisan majority in Congress passed last year. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law in April.

Nov 25, 2024 | session-magazine.com | Steve West

"There are enough waves out here for you too, brah!" My friend Dean welcomes me to the lineup where he is already out and surfing solo. He surfs a stand up board and is as South Shore Hawaiian as spam musubi. He's perpetually cold here on the mainland and wears more rubber than the rest of us. Dean likes to park it way out the back and wait for set waves, island style. The waves are small and inconsistent. The sun is out and the sky a bright blue. There is no wind.

Nov 22, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

Churches sometimes field complaints from their communities about additional traffic and noise from worship and other activities. But in one small Maine town, a significant number of residents say a church, at least one that supports Biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality, has no place in the community.