How The First Amendment Protects Americans' Speech — And How It Does Not

The law makes a few exceptions to its protection of free speech -- not liking what you hear isn't one of them.
Reason

First Amendment Claim Over Muting of Parent's Comments at School Board Meeting Can Go Forward

More from today's long decision by Judge Eric Melgren (D. Kan.) in Schmidt v. Huff (and read this post for the analysis of a separate First Amendment claim that Schmidt also brought): Plaintiff Carrie ...
Reason

Webinar Conversation on the First Amendment and Requiring Fifth-Graders to Read Pro-Gender-Ideology Books to Kindergarten Students

I much enjoyed this conversation with Kayla Ann Toney (First Liberty Institute), who was the prevailing lawyer in S.E. v. Grey: Encinitas Unified School District required two fifth-grade boys and ...

Understanding the First Amendment: Key Freedoms and Landmark Cases

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.
Yahoo

Fiscal court conducts first reading of budget amendment

The Laurel County Fiscal Court conducted the first reading of a budget amendment regarding an increase in receipts and expenditures Wednesday, April 2. If approved, Budget Amendment No. 02, Ordinance ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

“Full-throated assault on the First Amendment”: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics

“Judge William G. Young lambasted Trump and his administration for attacking free speech ‘under the cover of an unconstitutionally broad definition of Anti-Semitism’ used in efforts to deport ...
Acsh.org

When Doctors Defy Oversight by Licensing Boards: A Fraudulent Use of the First Amendment

The First Amendment's guarantees are not absolute. A person cannot “shout 'fire!' in a crowded theater” and put the lives of others in imminent danger. As Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote ...
KCCI Des Moines

Des Moines amendment to change rule limiting emergency shelter options passes first reading

BE EXTRADITED TO MINNESOTA, A CITY ORDINANCE AMENDMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW PLACES OF WORSHIP TO TAKE IN HOMELESS PEOPLE UNDER SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAS PASSED ITS FIRST READING. THE CITY OF DES MOINES ...