So holds the Second Circuit: "Tying a student speaker's constitutional right to free expression solely to the reaction that speech garners from upset or angry listeners cannot be squared with [First Amendment] principles."
Remembering a monstrous era of American history
"I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," CNN's Jake Tapper says of the Trump administration's actions in the Jimmy Kimmel saga.
The speaker's comments, the Virginia Court of Appeals held, "comments constitute non-actionable opinions based on fully disclosed facts."
The actions would violate a federal order imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis to limit the use of nonlethal weapons and other crowd control tactics.
That understanding of a familiar anti-Biden slogan hinges on the political message it communicates.
It sounds like something niche feminist bloggers might have taken up 10 years ago. But this is being led by Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024.
"Allah does not forget, however. This is how people earn their final place in the [h]ereafter."
Sam O'Hara went viral for playing "The Imperial March" behind groups of National Guard soldiers in D.C. He also says it led to him being illegally detained.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power.
Police officers took Jeana Gamble to the ground on the side of the road because they found her costume "obscene."
The murder of an American activist tore apart Britain’s hallowed free speech club.
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
The lawyer's claims that plaintiffs had violated federal law were opinions based on disclosed facts, the court concludes.
Mainstream and conservative news outlets were correct to reject it.
The settlement, which followed Sylvia Gonzalez's victory at the Supreme Court, also includes remedial First Amendment training for city officials.
Meta is the third tech company in two weeks to succumb to DOJ pressure to remove apps and groups used to share information on immigration officer sightings.
ACLU legal director Ben Wizner warns that Donald Trump’s war on dissent endangers the First Amendment, urges Americans to protect speech they dislike, and reflects on Edward Snowden’s enduring legacy.
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
Another entry into the "algorithms are magic" school of imposing liability on tech companies.
The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these doctrines?
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