A former Kean University professor says she was fired for sparking classroom debate—Kean says she violated anti-discrimination rules.

A Florida law student’s paper advocating offensive views has just as much right to exist as anything, writes the chairman of ...

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) ...

But deporting activists violates the 1st Amendment and does nothing to combat antisemitism. March 11, 2025 The administration has proclaimed that it is deporting noncitizen students, using their ...

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 ...

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 ...