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.

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.

Trump tests the First Amendment: A timeline

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and ...
AAUP

Academic Freedom's Uneven First Amendment Path

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.
Reason

"Title VI Must Be Applied Consistent with First Amendment Principles"

A federal district court discusses how the First Amendment limits liability for "hostile environment harassment" based on "speech on matters of public concern" in universities (public or private). And ...
The New York Times

The Supreme Court Must Intervene in the TikTok Case

Mr. Jaffer and Ms. Lakier are experts in First Amendment law. Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United ...
Reason

"Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" (Which Just Passed the House) Could Suppress First-Amendment-Protected Criticism of Israel

(1) means the definition of antisemitism adopted on May 26, 2016, by the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance], of which the United States is a member, which definition has been adopted ...