The Supreme Court declined to hear a debate over whether government employees can be fired for controversial social media ...

The First Amendment was passed by the Senate on September 25, 1789, and the House on September 24, 1789. ... For example, the Court held in Watts v. United States (1969) ...

The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...

First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues Feds could censor chatbots if their "speech" isn't protected, Character.AI says. Ashley Belanger – Apr 30, 2025 12:14 pm ...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) may have been a social studies teacher, but he would have failed Constitutional Law 101, especially the part about the First Amendment. “There’s no guarantee to free ...

First Amendment doctrine, developed over the centuries, provides excellent guidance. If colleges and universities adhere to it, they have a ready-made set of specific principles on which to build.

Members of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Clovis Community College, from left, Daniel Flores, Alejandro Flores and Juliette Colunga, hold examples of flyers they say were illegally ...

Free Speech. First Amendment Doesn't Protect Speech That Solicits a Specific Crime Calling for the burning of a particular mosque, for instance, or the bombing of a particular police station, or ...

The First Amendment protects dissent, but it is emphatically not an absolute. For example, it does not protect what the Supreme Court calls “true threats.”Students have no constitutional right ...