Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama and 19 other Republican-led states are asking the Supreme Court to blow up more than a century of First Amendment ...

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take office as New York City’s mayor on Jan. 1, a First Amendment challenge awaits him. How does a leader of one of the nation’s most diverse cities balance protecting ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the academics, who are party to a lawsuit alleging U.S. policy singles out noncitizens for detention or deportation over their pro-Palestinian ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of New Jersey’s effort to subpoena donor information from “crisis pregnancy centers” without federal court review, fearing that the probe may ...

I don't think the Founding Fathers had Halloween in mind when they drafted the First Amendment. I feel confident saying this, considering that Americans didn't start observing Halloween until the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a ...