A journalist sits in a police car during a ride-along, camera in hand, as officers prepare to execute a search warrant on a private home. Across town, an investigative reporter, posing as a patient, ...

The United Supreme Court has difficulty with new technology. The court ruled in Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Comm’n of Ohio (1915) that motion pictures were unprotected speech because “the ...

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights establishes rights to speech, religion, press, and assembly. Monday night in Austin and Dallas, police broke up protests in the streets over the federal ...

American colleges and universities are increasingly firing or punishing professors and other employees for what they say, whether it’s on social media or in the classroom. After the Sept. 10, 2025, ...

On the eighth episode of the ‘Seattle News Weekly’ podcast, Bill Wixey hosted Seattle University’s Dr. Caitlin Carlson who explained the scope and limits of the First Amendment, including which kinds ...

Last month, a group calling itself the UNC Alumni Free Speech Alliance (UNC AFSA) sent a letter to UNC chancellor Lee Roberts ...

Anyone who communicates ideas about controversial topics in the United States ought to take a deep interest in protecting the First Amendment right to free speech. Yet the right has limits. A recent ...

The First Amendment states that the government "shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a potential nominee to the U ...

The most important free speech question of the decade may not be about social media. It may be about chatbots. As generative AI reshapes how people communicate, courts and legislators must confront ...

An excerpt from today's long opinion in U.S. v. Al-Timimi, by Fourth Circuit Judge James Wynn, joined by Judges Stephanie Thacker and Pamela Harris: Ali Al-Timimi was convicted based entirely on words ...

The legal dispute stems from Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell's prosecution of pro-Palestine protesters. Mitchell, a Republican, argues the law improperly allows judges to interfere with ...