First Amendment

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is being sued by a restaurant after the state implemented a ban on “family friendly” drag shows.

A group of five TikTok users have reportedly launched a lawsuit aimed at preventing Montana from banning the platform.

The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has claimed that the state of Montana’s ban on the app violates the First Amendment.

A Massachusetts middle schooler and his family are suing Nichols Middle School for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights after he was told to remove his shirt, which had the phrase “there are only two genders” written on it.

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak told C-SPAN’s Book TV on Sunday that there was a crucial difference between “book bans” and legitimate decisions about what should appear in a school curriculum. The issue is a hot topic in California, where

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) did a victory lap on Twitter on Monday after news broke that Tucker Carlson was leaving the Fox News Channel — a day after Ocasio-Cortez accused him of “incitement of violence.”

There is no problem in the United States with religious discrimination in the workplace, the Biden administration argued to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a new statement addressing the disruption of Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech, and the next steps that the law school will take.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Janet Yellen about censorship of online communications to prevent a “social media internet-based bank run.”

California parents filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s exclusion of religious schools in special education funding.

One in four college faculty members says they are very or extremely likely to self-censor in academic publications, and over one in three do so during interviews or lectures, according to a survey sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). This means that self-censorship among college faculty is far more prevalent than it was during the McCarthy era.

Cancel culture is both “good for democracy” and a “way for a new generation of people to practice free speech,” according to a recent Rolling Stone piece celebrating the ostracization of those “guilty” of holding controversial positions, while assuring the practice is “here to stay.”

The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is set to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. is “plainly protected” by the First Amendment of the Constitution. 

James Lawrence, a lawyer representing Douglass Mackey, said the ACLU is “nowhere to be found” regarding the DOJ’s prosection of his client.

More than 40 Congressional Republicans sent a letter to Smithsonian Institute’s Secretary Lonnie Bunch on Tuesday, demanding to know why Smithsonian National Air Space Museum (NASM) staff allegedly kicked out students for wearing pro-life hats.

Christian students are suing the Smithsonian National Air Space Museum (NASM) for allegedly violating their First and Fifth Amendment rights by kicking them out for wearing pro-life hats following the 50th annual March for Life.

The United States will soon implement laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) violated the First Amendment and, arguably, his oath to uphold the Constitution in 2020 when his office demanded that Twitter suspend the account of Paul Sperry, an investigative journalist.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to a question on what he will do to make sure there are penalties for disinformation about elections by claiming that “There’s no guarantee to free speech

Attacks on Christian churches have nearly tripled in the last four years, according to a 84-page report released by FRC in December. 

Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.

A Christian healthcare worker is suing the VA over new federal rule she says would require her to participate in abortions.

Former President Donald J. Trump unveiled a free-speech policy platform on Thursday to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.”

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) speculated on Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Monica Crowley that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its subsidiary Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are “running assets” within Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter to surveil Americans and design political censorship protocols.

On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that he’s surprised he has “gotten so much criticism from the left” for his position on Twitter censorship because accounts on the left have run into censorship issues without transparency,

A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the Biden administration’s mandate on doctors and hospitals forcing them to perform gender transition procedures against their conscience.

Whether the government can force web designers to create websites celebrating gay marriage was the issue Tuesday at the Supreme Court, in the latest clash between free speech rights on one hand and a Colorado law forbidding LGBT discrimination on the other.

Faith advocates warned of a potential point of no return, stating that First Amendment protections of religious freedom are “now at risk.”

Gorsuch cited the treatment of Colorado cake baker Jack Philips during oral arguments in another religious liberty case.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced an amendment to the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) in a final effort to help preserve religious liberty before the House votes on the same-sex marriage bill next week, the Federalist first reported.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) lamented the passage of the “Respect for Marriage Act” without his religious liberty amendment.

The Senate rejected Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) religious liberty amendment and passed the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA).

Senators voted 61-35 to end debate on a bipartisan amendment to the same-sex marriage bill that purports to protect religious liberty.

Voters in five key states oppose the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) due to religious liberty concerns.

Sullivan and Lummis, who both voted to advance to same-sex marriage bill, said they would support Lee’s religious liberty amendment.

McMaster called the ACLU’s lawsuit a “shortsighted attack against every South Carolinian’s constitutionally-protected religious liberty.”