by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 9, 2026 | Education, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South, TN LEAD
The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy and Lead Reporter Tom Pappert argue that Ramadan accommodations at Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) as detailed in a recent Nashville Banner feature article may violate the First Amendment’s...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 9, 2026 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
A jury trial in a First Amendment case brought by a Tennessee high school student against Tullahoma City Schools is scheduled for Tuesday, January 13. On August 10, 2022, Tullahoma High School administrators summoned a 17-year-old male student, the plaintiff in the...
by Zachery Schmidt | Nov 24, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee
A Tennessee judge denied a temporary injunction last week that would have required Rutherford County Schools to restore over 145 books to its library. In April, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee sued the school district after it started removing...
by Zachery Schmidt | Oct 31, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
An assistant professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) sued the school this week after being placed on administrative leave following the comment she made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Tamar Shirinian, who taught anthropology at the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 28, 2024 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined many elected officials and conservative leaders who expressed disappointment with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri on Wednesday. The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and five...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 17, 2024 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Michael Patrick Leahy, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The Tennessee Star, and Steve Baker, investigative journalist and opinion contributor for Blaze News, agreed that Monday’s show cause hearing ordered by Tennessee Chancery Court Judge l’Ashea Myles was “nonsense.”...
