Flying by the First Amendment

Becket Fund for Religious Liberty legal counsel Jared Leland

"To replace a cemetery with a runway is to fly by First Amendment principles and crash on religious rights."

-- Jared Leland, media and legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington-based law firm that challenged the seizure of cemetery property that would be used to expand a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an environmental impact statement Thursday (July 28) that supported the city's plan for modernizing the airport.