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 ...

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

A federal judge granted a 14-day injunction after Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration, arguing that the Medicaid ...

Opponents of Tempe's proposed changes for permits point to the city's crackdown on volunteers who feed homeless people in the ...

Pride Month turns our public spaces into sites of celebration and remembrance. But Pride is not just a cultural event; it is ...

To use an up-to-date example, say, for instance, that an elected trustee is criticized by a pro-Palestinian activist, and she thinks that the activist is actually motivated by anti-Semitism.

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law, said the parts of the bill banning what teachers couldn't teach in K-12 were probably OK.

The First Amendment Coalition has sent a letter to Shasta County supervisors protesting the county’s new media policy and procedures for covering board meetings. The coalition says the new rules ...

Opponents of Tempe's proposed changes for permits point to the city's crackdown on volunteers who feed homeless people in the ...

The very first amendment to our Constitution was not an afterthought—it was a deliberate statement that in this country, the government does not control the speech of its people.

The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

EPA employees who signed the letter say they knew the Trump administration was unlikely to welcome constructive criticism, ...