The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier/CNN/Getty Images Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that ...

Is begging protected by the First Amendment? Alabama says it isn't. But courts have said governments can't completely ban panhandling.

Florida's proposed union bill, SB 1296, faces bipartisan opposition from public workers who say it guts their First Amendment ...

Before Democrats get on the high First Amendment horse, they should reflect a little on the decadeslong war they fought ...

Prosecutors are charging protesters with conspiracy, seeking to limit opposition to government policies. More courts are allowing it.

The First Amendment protects the right to protest, but this right does not extend to physical violence. Protests have occurred nationwide following the fatal shooting of two people by federal ...

A direct defense of Health Care Sharing Ministries as protected religious communities under the First Amendment.

At least three rights protected under the First Amendment clashed in recent days as protesters and journalists, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon, were arrested in connection with a Minnesota ...

One particular element of that conversation promises to be particularly fraught: calls to punish “hate speech.” After Kirk’s killing, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to “target” and “go after” ...

I don't think the Founding Fathers had Halloween in mind when they drafted the First Amendment. I feel confident saying this, considering that Americans didn't start observing Halloween until the ...

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and ...