In February 2026, President Donald Trump was sued by a group of
multifaith organizations (including the
Interfaith Alliance,
Muslims for Progressive Values, the
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund and
Hindus for Human Rights) who alleged that his appointments to the commission were not in compliance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The group claimed that the commission is not "fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented" as it says FACA requires, because the commissioners were 12 Christians and one Jew; there is no representation for other American religious communities such as Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. The administration responded that Trump had "promised to protect religious freedom for all people of faith and created the Religious Liberty Commission to address current threats to domestic religious liberty." The removal came after some of Prejean's comments while questioning witnesses about the differences between
antizionism and
antisemitism during a commission hearing on antisemitism earlier that week had sparked controversy. Prejean asked: "Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know. So are all Catholics antisemites?" and asked the witnesses, who were testifying about their experiences with
antisemitism on college campuses after the
October 7th attacks, "are you willing to condemn what
Israel has done in
Gaza?" ==See also==