First Amendment

Recent allegations of sedition against members of Congress are not new. During the Civil War, a Democrat member of Congress was convicted of sedition by a military tribunal for urging Union soldiers to disobey “illegal orders” and desert.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case challenging Colorado’s law mandating an affirmation-only approach for counselors with regards to sexuality and “gender identity.”

On Friday, during an appearance on CNN’s “NewsCentral,” actor and director Rob Reiner stated that President Donald Trump had “declared war on this democracy.”

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) denounced the Republican-led resolution to “honor” Charlie Kirk before it passed on Friday, arguing it “brings great pain” to black Americans who suffered under segregation and accusing the assassinated conservative activist of antisemitism.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) tried to ban “deepfake” parody on the Internet — while trolling President Donald Trump with imitation posts, turning the governor’s official X press feed into a parody account.

A federal judge has thrown out two laws signed last year by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that banned so-called “deepfake” videos of politicians, calling the legislation an unconstitutional form of censorship.

Trump’s new executive order actually protects flag-burning as a form of free speech, targeting it only when it is associated with violent crimes.

The Florida Department of Education on Friday sent a scathing letter to Alachua County School Board Chair Sarah Rockwell in response to her now-deleted social media post celebrating the death of Hulk Hogan as “one less MAGA” and the board’s attempt to silence a parent at Thursday’s school board meeting.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday sent guidance to federal agencies requiring them to protect the religious expression of federal workers — a striking departure from the previous Biden administration, which was often hostile to people of faith.

A federal court on Thursday sided with an Oregon Christian mother after state officials denied her application in 2023 to adopt foster children because of her religious beliefs about gender and sexuality. 

Federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s DOJ sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the criminal conviction of conservative meme-maker Douglass Mackey, ruling that the government failed to present sufficient evidence that he knowingly joined a conspiracy to violate voting rights when he posted satirical memes ahead of the 2016 election.

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with Maryland parents of various faiths who sued their school board over its refusal to allow their K-5 children to opt out of LGBTQ+ curriculum. 

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case surrounding New Jersey’s seemingly targeted investigation of pro-life pregnancy centers following the end of Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider a case brought by religious organizations against a New York state regulation requiring employers to cover abortions through health insurance plans.

A federal appeals court ruled against a Christian-owned traditional Korean spa in Washington, stating that the women-only business must allow the patronage of transgender-identifying males.

A federal judge has determined that an AI-powered chatbot involved in a tragic teen suicide case does not qualify for free speech protections under the Constitution.

A federal judge in New Hampshire sided with a local school district — and gender insanity — by blocking parents from wearing armbands on school property to protest transgender-identifying boys from playing on girls’ sports teams. 

Barack Obama claims to be a champion of free speech and a free press, but he tried to suppress Fox News and encouraged social media censorship.

The Gridiron Club’s annual dinner skipped making a toast to the current president, breaking a more than 100-year tradition, and instead made a toast to the First Amendment, according to several reports.

A MAGA-loving Florida homeowner won a lawsuit against Walton County this month after racking up more than $60,000 in unpaid fines for hanging massive pro-Trump banners for several years on the side of his house on County Road 30A.

Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to opt their young children out of LGBTQ+ indoctrination at schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. 

If you “hate America” or seek to undermine it — “do not come to this country,” declared Senator Ted Cruz, who endorsed the arrest and impending deportation of pro-Hamas activist and Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two cases challenging “buffer zones” that prohibit pro-life activists from approaching someone entering an abortion clinic. 

Rock band Placebo’s frontman Brian Molko was charged with defamation after calling Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “fascist Nazi” from the stage in Turin.

The White House received over 7,000 applications from people interested in the “new media” seat for independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators, according to several reports.

Free speech and private gun ownership were paramount in the minds of the Founding Fathers, Elon Musk stressed in an X post on January 6.

The State Department has devised plans to distribute employees from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which has funded the censoring of conservatives, to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate the same activities, as revealed by documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Facebook suspended Smith & Wesson’s account Friday and the gun maker responded by praising the free speech on Elon Musk’s X platform.

Republicans in Congress are circling the wagons to support a Texas law to shield children from “one of the largest public health crises of the digital age: internet pornography.”

Podcast king Joe Rogan told his audience that artists, musicians, and comedians have thanked him for endorsing Donald Trump because they were afraid to do so for fear of having their careers destroyed.

“Nothing in the text, structure, or original public understanding of the First Amendment talks about or even leads logically to an absurd rule insulating the media from defamation liability,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said Saturday, raising the question of why the media can report untruths about former President Donald Trump. 

Conservative leaders are sounding the alarm after Harris said that she does not believe in a single religious exemption when it comes to killing unborn babies by abortions.  

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that his pro-Trump Super PAC, the America PAC would be giving $1 million away “randomly” to people who sign his petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments.

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a recently passed California law aimed at curbing the spread of AI-generated deepfakes depicting political candidates. In his decision, Judge John Mendez wrote, “While a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment.”

Walz was wrong, and Vance noted that people weren’t being censored for shouting “fire,” but rather “for saying that toddlers shouldn’t wear masks.”