Religious Liberty Commission delivers draft report, DOJ says

President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission delivered a draft of its report, the US Department of Justice said on 26 June.

According to the release, the commission was established last May to advise and report to the president on identifying emerging threats to religious liberty, upholding federal laws protecting participation in a pluralistic democracy, and protecting the free exercise of religion.

The DOJ release, which styles the draft "historic" in its title, is the administration's own account of the milestone. The draft's contents, length and recommendations were not described in the material available, and the document itself was not part of the material reviewed.

Background

The Religious Liberty Commission was created by executive order in May 2025, part of a broader push by the second Trump administration to put religious-liberty enforcement at the center of its domestic legal agenda — alongside a White House Faith Office and a Justice Department task force on what the administration terms anti-Christian bias. The commission was established as an advisory body of appointed commissioners drawn largely from religious and conservative legal circles, with a mandate to report to the president rather than to legislate.

Free exercise of religion is protected by the First Amendment, and the boundary between that guarantee and other legal obligations — anti-discrimination law, public education, healthcare mandates — has been among the most active fronts in American constitutional litigation for a decade. Presidential advisory commissions of this kind carry no legal force of their own; their significance lies in the policy agenda they legitimize and the executive actions or legislative proposals that agencies subsequently build on their recommendations.

What comes next

A draft report's procedural path runs toward a final report delivered to the president, though no timetable for completion or publication was given in the material available. Watch for whether the final document is released publicly, and for any executive orders, DOJ enforcement priorities or agency guidance that cite the commission's recommendations as their basis.