Donald Trump’s election win, aided in part by online disinformation, has reignited the debate over whether the First Amendment’s protections are adequate in today’s digital age. The contemporary ...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee ...

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and ...

Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era. Jane Fonda accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at last winter’s Screen ...

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights establishes rights to speech, religion, press, and assembly. Monday night in Austin and Dallas, police broke up protests in the streets over the federal ...

The 1st Amendment, and the separation of church and state, America’s best idea, is at risk as never before. The notion that church and state should be discrete entities was unprecedented when the ...

American presidents have long tested the bounds of First Amendment protections. From John Adams enforcing the Sedition Act that criminalized critical speech, to Woodrow Wilson suppressing anti-war ...

Mr. Charles is a law professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law. Mr. Schafer is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. With its new term starting this month, the ...

Sept 3 (Reuters) - A Michigan criminal defense lawyer brought an intriguing, post-Covid 1st Amendment issue to a federal appeals court: If a state-court hearing is publicly livestreamed, does the 1st ...