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As we celebrate our nation's founding in a tumultuous time, holiday serves as a reminder to appreciate the freedoms enshrined ...
Free speech, assembly, protest, and First Amendment rights—not government action—have powered LGBTQ+ progress in America.
WASHINGTON – Support for the First Amendment is declining in the U.S., according to a new survey released Wednesday that found Americans' views about the amendment could influence how they vote ...
Eugene Volokh, Freedom of Speech and Workplace Harassment, 39 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1791, 1817 (1992) ("The government cannot escape First Amendment scrutiny for its speech restriction by forcing ...
Concerns over the protection of the First Amendment in the upcoming election, and on campuses, are highlighted in the Freedom Forum's annual survey.
Developments in recent decades reflect diminished respect for the First Amendment. These include campus speech codes, political pressure for censorship on social media platforms, and a society ...
Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, The State of the First Amendment.
"Corporations are people, too" is an old legal principle now being embraced by social media companies like Meta and TikTok. They say they have First Amendment rights that protect their speech.
Congress knew banning TikTok was a First Amendment problem. It did so anyway It’s ironic for the Justice Dept. to argue banning an app used for self-expression is necessary for human rights ...
The First Amendment does not protect what's called true threat to cause harm, which is a genuine and actual threat to hurt somebody specific as opposed to general advocacy or rhetorical hyperbole." ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to the state's personalized license plate program Wednesday. Justice Sarah Campbell wrote in the decision that ...
He portrayed the First Amendment as hopelessly out of date and dangerous. He argued that citizens would be far better off if an elite could tell them what was information and what was disinformation.