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F**k the 1st Amendment!That is what Tennessee legislators just did. You can now be arrested for protesting an anti-LGBTQ+ speaker. Apparently, you can protest all the pro-LGBTQ+ sp...

The First Amendment Does Not Contain An Election-Year Exception

The First Amendment does not allow the government to restrict political speech because change might be disruptive.

The First Amendment and Off-Duty Police Officer's Counterprotest of Anti-ICE Student Protest

Some excerpts from the long opinion in Mullen v. Giordano, decided Thursday by Judge Susan Brnovich (D. Ariz.): The Ninth… The post The First Amendment and Off-Duty Police Officer'...

When Did The First Amendment Become A Money Printer?

Another layup of a case. The post When Did The First Amendment Become A Money Printer? appeared first on Above the Law.

The First Amendment Be...

[Editorial]...Damned!Why is that it seems like the Republicans hates the 1st Amendment? They want to tell you which books to read, what television shows to watch, and now what colo...

The First Amendment Corridor

Queens World Film Festival and The Queens Memory Project present The First Amendment Corridor. Step into the First Amendment Corridor, an interactive experience where participants...

Injunction Against Referring to Ex-Wife and Children in Online Media Violates First Amendment

An excerpt from a long Washington Court of Appeals decision approved yesterday for publication, Asbach v. Couto (Judge Bradley Maxa,… The post Injunction Against Referring to Ex-Wi...

First Amendment Likely Precludes Trump Administration's Canceling DEI-Promoting Contracts, Ninth Circuit Rules

There's a lot happening in today's decision in Thakur v. Trump, by Ninth Circuit Judges Richard Paez, Morgan Christen, and… The post First Amendment Likely Precludes Trump Administ...

Supreme Court Fist Pumps for the First Amendment

Today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a religious nonprofit that provides counseling and resources to pregnant women in New Jersey,...

UNC classroom ‘First Amendment’ policy advances right-wing war on expertise

Last month, a group calling itself the UNC Alumni Free Speech Alliance (UNC AFSA) sent a letter to UNC chancellor Lee Roberts urging UNC to adopt a policy requiring all course syll...

Government Likely Violated First Amendment in Getting Apple and Google to Block ICE Sightings Content, Court Holds

From yesterday's decision by Judge Jorge Alonso (N.D. Ill.) in Rosado v. Bondi: Plaintiff Kassandra Rosado runs a Facebook group… The post Government Likely Violated First Amendmen...

Content Moderation and the First Amendment

Back in 2013 I argued that under the Supreme Court's jurisprudence algorithmic editing is speech for First Amendment purposes, and… The post Content Moderation and the First Amendm...

The Kimmel Question: When Does Speech Become Dangerous?

Americans love arguing about free speech. We invoke the First Amendment as a kind of political force field: You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without consequence. B...

ABC and Disney accuse Trump admin of violating First Amendment rights

ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of violating its First Amendment rights by making "major shifts in policy and practice" that the network claims will chi...

No First Amendment Violation in Ohio Closing DEI-Related Offices and Committees

From Rice v. Schell, decided two weeks ago by Judge Matthew McFarland (S.D. Ohio), but just posted on Westlaw a… The post No First Amendment Violation in Ohio Closing DEI-Related O...

I Guess You Could Say That- Rescheduling and the Dawn of First Amendment Protection for Medical Marijuana Advertising

Facing the very real possibility of execution for speaking in favor of the independence of the soon-to-be United States, Patrick Henry, in his famous “Give me liberty or give me de...

Against the Political Clerisy

The freedom of association is surely the humblest and least-touted First Amendment right, and yet, as Luke Sheahan explains in this keynote lecture, it is crucial for preserving ou...

Free Speech Does Not End at Commencement

Free Speech Does Not End at Commencement Sara Brady Fri, 05/08/2026 - 03:00 AM Political opinions are not discrimination. Speeches at university-sponsored events are not officia...

CLARENCE PAGE: Free speech isn’t just for laughs

An arena for views to be exchanged and disputes to be resolved.

Jim Cramer Believes “First Amendment’s Going to Be a Very Good Protector of What Meta Has to Do”

Jim Cramer Believes “First Amendment’s Going to Be a Very Good Protector of What Meta Has to Do”

SCOTUS Confirms First Amendment Protects Pregnancy Center Donors From Nosey Abortion States

'Since the 1950s, this Court has confronted one official demand after another like the Attorney General’s. Over and again, we have held those demands burden the exercise of First A...

First Amendment advocates blast the FCC's early review of ABC broadcast licenses

Free speech advocates sounded the alarm Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s challenge to ABC’s broadcast licenses, with some decrying the move as a threat to the F...

The Roberts court’s record on the First Amendment

The Roberts court is often treated as especially protective of the First Amendment. It is true that the court has reshaped free speech law across such areas as campaign finance, st...