America’s courts keep defending the First Amendment as Trump tries to silence critics

The American courts keep defending the First Amendment despite President Donald Trump’s best efforts to crack down on free ...
Opinion

Trump has not beaten the First Amendment, try as he might

There are endless examples of the Trump administration being especially intent on breaking Constitution’s promise.
American Enterprise Institute

Judge McFadden’s First Amendment Ruling Against the White House: Infusing Modern Speech Doctrines with History and Tradition

I recently addressed today’s debate over the Press Clause’s meaning 234 years after the First Amendment’s ratification. The rift involves whether the clause is “a technology-specific provision” that ...
SCOTUSblog

Has the Supreme Court rendered the First Amendment’s press clause invisible?

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In 2021, the legal scholars RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West published a study tracking the Supreme Court’s references to ...
USA Today

Free speech case puts first graders’ rights in spotlight

A federal complaint alleged a first grader in California was punished for giving a "Black Lives Matter" drawing to an African American classmate in 2021. A court ruled in favor of the school district, ...
The Hill

A lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist could chill all of our speech

If democracy is our nation’s engine, then political protest is its gas pedal — and it has been since our founding. Early Americans rose up to protest the tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, ...
Reason

First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules

Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio: Plaintiffs, Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation and Jane Doe, a noncitizen ...
Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Speaking Collectively: The First Amendment, the Public Sector, and the Right to Bargain and Strike," by Kate Andrias

The article is here; the Introduction: The First Amendment, as interpreted by the federal courts, provides government workers a right to associate in unions but no right to bargain collectively or to ...
NPR

ABC and Disney sue FCC, alleging First Amendment violations

The ABC network sued the Federal Communications Commission in federal court Tuesday in a case with major First Amendment implications, arguing that the Trump administration has violated its free ...