How the First Amendment could doom age-gating

Judge Robert Pitman opined that it likely violated the First Amendment: “The Act is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door.” As my colleague ...
Jurist

Madison’s Lost First Amendment: The Mission Statement That Never Was

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 ...
Time

History Explains Why the U.S. Doesn’t Ban Hate Speech

George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, shakes his fist during his speech at Drake University, 1967. George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, shakes his fist ...
CNN

Judges have looked unfavorably upon Trump in First Amendment cases this year

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...
Reason

Yes, the First Amendment Applies to Non-Citizens Present in the United States

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 ...
Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Suspicion, Deference, and the First Amendment," by Helen Norton

The article is here; the Introduction: First Amendment disputes frequently require courts to assess governmental assertions that contested expression is unacceptably dangerous. This assessment ...
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‘It has limits’: Here’s how far your First Amendment rights go

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Freedom of speech. It’s the first guarantee in the United States Bill of Rights. Yet, in the week following the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA ...