THE CONVERSATION — Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service said in a legal document ...

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Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

Police in a California coastal community received an influx of calls earlier this week about people filming citizens at the ...

The Guntersville Museum is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States with a summer exhibit about the First Amendment.

A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...

This term was marked by sharp right turns in major civil rights cases, a mixed record on lower-profile cases, and mixed ...

One of the great blessings of liberty we enjoy in our country is freedom of religion. The Founding Fathers of our nation ...

A Florida law student’s paper advocating offensive views has just as much right to exist as anything, writes the chairman of ...

The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...

The First Amendment guarantees several protections for Americans — including freedom of speech, the press, assembly, religion, and the right to petition the government.

In case his agenda-driven left-wing professors neglected to teach him properly, I would simply point out that the First Amendment does not protect criminals from blocking public streets, setting ...