Josh Blackman | 9.19.2025 11:02 AM

The fallout from Rebecca Taibleson's nomination continues. I was very critical of an attack from a particular conservative group which focused on the rabbi that married Taibleson. That attack was distinct from a letter signed by about fifty other conservative groups, including the First Liberty Institute (FLI). Unfortunately, FLI is being lumped in with the organization that focused on Rebecca's rabbi, and it has been suggested that FLI favors a religious test, and is hostile to Jewish people.

I can speak from experience that such a charge is absolutely unfounded. I have worked with FLI for more than a decade. In 2016, a group of poultry activists sued a Chabad Rabbi in California on the eve of the Jewish New Year. The Rabbi, preoccupied with other tasks,........

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