A federal judge ruled Monday that Americans have the right to record public officials secretly, including police, who are fulfilling their duties in public, siding with James O’Keefe and Project Veritas.
The government is allowing the Temple of Satan to install a statue as an exercise of the church’s First Amendment rights.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration in Washington, DC, on Friday to restore the White House press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta. But the appellate precedent underlying that order is wrong, so the Justice Department should continue appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the case should be dismissed under the political-question doctrine.
President Donald Trump will win the lawsuit that CNN filed against him on Tuesday after the White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press pass, both because the Constitution does not allow a federal court to issue this kind of order to the White House and because the First Amendment does not protect what Acosta did.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responded to a lawsuit filed by CNN after Jim Acosta’s press pass was suspended.
This could be a major test for the new conservative majority on the court. Will they tear down this 93-year-old war memorial?
U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled Tuesday that the NRA’s suit against New York can continue on First Amendment grounds.
Left-wing news media outlets publicly lobbied Facebook to censor a political ad at a critical time for undecided voters, ultimately shaming the company Monday into refusing ad buys from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.
According to a recently published poll, almost one in five college students believe that we need to rewrite the First Amendment because it is “outdated.” 40 percent support speech restrictions on students and faculty on campus.
A majority of U.S. college students report often feeling “intimidated” to disagree with professors who express their own personal political or social beliefs while teaching classes.
Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach has been prevented from riding in a local Kansas parade alongside a replica machine gun.
Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, warned of large technology companies’ procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC.
Probably no 27 words in our founding documents have caused so much controversy as have those comprising the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms; except, perhaps, the 10 words in the First Amendment that protect freedom of speech.
Professor Mike Adams of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, aggressively defended First Amendment rights for students and faculty of public universities during a congressional hearing on Thursday.
A congressional hearing that took place on Wednesday featured eloquent arguments about the importance of fighting for expression rights on campus.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled the state’s ban on handgun advertisements violates the First Amendment.
During his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh stated that as a general matter, it’s good to think of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause “working together for the concept of freedom of religion in
Speaking before Senators and Representatives today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey repeatedly referred to his platform as a “public square” while simultaneously arguing that he has the right to remove lawful content protected by the First Amendment from it.
Ann Coulter called for mandating First Amendment protections to speech and expression across social media companies, offering her remarks in a Wednesday interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal with John McArdle.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated that while he wouldn’t have gone that far, former CIA Director John Brennan was “within the reasonableness orbit” when he characterized President Trump’s performance in Helsinki as “treasonous.” Lieu also
The Los Angeles Times declined to join a nationwide protest Thursday by newspapers, led by the Boston Globe, against President Donald Trump and his so-called attacks on freedom of the press.
On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reacted to the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance and the prospect of the White House revoking other security clearances by saying the bigger issue is an
The Boston Globe is organizing a “war of words” against President Donald Trump with “about 70” publications to combat what it describes as the president’s “dirty war against the free press.”
Contrary to common belief on college campuses, there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. Pimply teenaged boys writing snotty remarks about blacks and Jews is every bit as constitutionally protected as an Asian girl on The New York Times’ editorial board writing snotty things about white men, although the latter pays better.
Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget dismissed concerns of Silicon Valley trampling on free speech by deplatforming Infowars.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling on social media monopolies to “do more than take down one website,” meaning take down more websites on top of InfoWars.
A staggering 40 percent of Americans could not name a single First Amendment right, according to a recent survey on the First Amendment.
Internet provocateur and InfoWars proprietor Alex Jones is being systematically excluded from social media platforms. This is, plainly, an attack on free speech.
The Daily Mail’s David Martosko is demanding the White House “discourage” the American people’s right to protest against the powerful.
Jim Acosta derided Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday as a “propagandist” who is damaging American perceptions of the news media.
Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman suggests the First Amendment protects the sharing of 3D gun files just as it protects the sharing of other information some Americans deem harmful.
Planet Fitness has cancelled the membership of a woman after she voiced complaints about the presence of a man in the women’s locker room in front of other women customers of the gym.
JJudge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), has made clear in judicial writings that banning a certain “class of arms” is like banning a particular “category of speech.”
Donald Trump’s administration intervened on behalf of anti-grooming gangs campaigner Tommy Robinson and expressed concerns over his safety to Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., sources claim.
In a remarkably honest exposé, the New York Times has acknowledged that “liberals who once championed expansive First Amendment rights are now uneasy about them” ever since conservatives realized they should apply to them as well.
