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.

It may be that the lawsuit is a mere intimidation effort, in which the president is angling for an early settlement like those he obtained recently from ABC and CBS. But if the case does not settle, ...

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” ...

• About this case: The Supreme Court heard a challenge from PornHub and other sites to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, ...

The law makes a few exceptions to its protection of free speech -- not liking what you hear isn't one of them.

With President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy” and threatening broadcast licenses and political enemies, First Amendment scholars are asking:  Is the First Amendment under more ...

The "App Store Accountability Act" would have required smartphone app stores to verify a user's age before they make a ...

A preliminary injunction in federal court cited the First Amendment, handing a win to tech companies like Apple and Google.

A federal judge sitting in Manhattan this week barred the Trump administration from enforcing sanctions on two U.S. citizens and law professors who work with the International Criminal Court (ICC). On ...

A heated First Amendment debate is raging across the country over the free speech rights of green card and visa holders legally in the U.S. The debate was sparked most notably by the detention of ...

While we write from opposite ends of the political spectrum—one of us is a progressive democrat, the other a staunch conservative—we both agree that corporations were never intended to have as much ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ...