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 ...
Reason

Court Holds Anti-DEI Executive Orders Don't Facially Violate First Amendment

Some short excerpts from Friday's long decision by Judge Timothy Kelly (D.D.C.) in National Urban League v. Trump: After taking office this January, President Trump promptly issued three executive ...
Houston Chronicle

First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yet, the First Amendment has not always been potent enough to protect the right to ...
Times Union

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kathy M. Newman, Carnegie Mellon University (THE CONVERSATION) Jane Fonda is joining ...