# Hiram Sasser Executive General Counsel at [[First Liberty Institute]], the largest legal organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty. Working alongside [[Kelly Shackelford]] (First Liberty's president and CEO), Sasser has led litigation on military religious expression, public religious displays, and church autonomy cases that form part of the broader conservative legal movement's strategy to expand the scope of religious exemptions in American law. Sasser represents the operational legal talent behind the religious liberty litigation infrastructure — the lawyers who actually argue the cases while figures like Shackelford handle institutional leadership and fundraising. His work at First Liberty connects to the vault's tracking of how conservative legal organizations coordinate to build favorable case law through strategic litigation. ## See Also - [[First Liberty Institute]] — his employer - [[Kelly Shackelford]] — First Liberty's president