Alabama and nineteen other Republican-led states are asking the Supreme Court to blow up more than century of First Amendment precedents. In their place, they are urging the high court’s conservative ...

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...

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 ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably ...

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 ...

After the death of right-wing conservative Charlie Kirk, a swell of conservatives is pushing to punish those who speak out about the 31-year-old's political assassination. People across the country ...

It has been a year since the second Trump administration took office, and during this time we have seen increasing challenges to rights and protections that many in the United States have long taken ...

An annual survey published by the Freedom Forum shows this year that American's understanding of their First Amendment rights remains low. Even as the First Amendment takes centerstage after the ...

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers. The First Amendment is a ...

A protest disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January. In the weeks that followed, protesters and journalists involved in the incident were arrested. The case highlights the tensions ...