The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...

Banned Books, Free Speech, and the First Amendment The Supreme Court declined to hear a case allowing Texas officials to remove books from public libraries, ruling such collections are "government ...

Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - There’s a renewed focus on First Amendment rights on social media in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. As people took to social media to share their opinions on his death, ...