Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

Constitution 101 The First Amendment “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; ...

Bill of Rights became part of the U.S. Constitution. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who described the Bill of Rights as “the great American charter of personal liberty and human dignity,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental intervention – as seen in the temporary suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel – the common reflex for many who ...

It’s increasingly clear how important standing is for asserting online First Amendment speech rights. Last year, the US Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri dismissed on standing grounds the claims of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California Supreme Court upholds law barring nursing home staff from misgendering transgender and gay residents, ...

A Florida federal judge ruled that a school district's removal of an LGBTQ+ book did not violate First Amendment rights. The judge stated that school libraries are not public forums and curating books ...

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.

Trump appointee Amul Thapar unleashed an appalling judicial broadside against the constitutional rights of noncitizens that amounts to a wholesale negation of our judicial history. A federal judge in ...