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

Do Americans have a First Amendment right to watch or know how executions are conducted? A botched execution in Tennessee in ...

Most federal appeals courts have recognized the right to record police. DHS employees nevertheless seem to view it as a crime. Even after Noem was fired on March 5, DHS harassment of observers ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday, with incoming cases on questions of free speech, voting rights and climate change.

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 ...

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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 ...

The Justice Department is seeking information from the City of Fort Worth to determine whether to launch a civil rights investigation into the Fort Worth Police Department after publicly posted videos ...