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 ...

Examples of First Amendment Audits. Oct 9, 2023 Oct 9, 2023; The right to take photographs and record videos of a public space is generally protected by the First Amendment. But ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under what is known as the compelled speech doctrine, the First Amendment’s free speech protections extend beyond generally keeping the government from suppressing people from saying what they ...

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 ...

The latest indictment of former President Trump threatens to destroy the First Amendment and give the federal government the unprecedented power to criminalize political lies, constitutional law ...

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.