Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- Three anti-Muslim extremists have been convicted of plotting to detonate explosives outside a Kansas apartment building with many Muslim residents.
- The Council on American-Islamic Relations has alleged in two separate suits that the Michigan Department of Corrections is violating the Free Exercise rights of an incarcerated Muslim woman.
- Only a small number of state legislative proposals to expand rights to refuse services based on religious objections have been passed into law this year, although the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision will likely be rendered in June.
- The governor of Arizona has signed into law a bill requiring physicians to ask women specific questions about why they wish to terminate their pregnancies, although they may refuse to answer.
- President Trump has stated his support for an American Christian pastor currently being detained in Turkey for allegedly supporting groups involved in the unsuccessful 2016 coup attempt.
- A conservative advocacy group is being subpoenaed in suits by LGBT advocacy groups challenging the Trump Administration’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the military.