The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects several fundamental rights, including freedom of the press and free ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge told students that the First Amendment protects far more speech than many Americans realize, including speech they ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case allowing Texas officials to remove books from public libraries, ruling such collections are "government speech" and not protected by the First Amendment. This ...

WASHINGTON — American presidents have long tested the bounds of First Amendment protections. From John Adams enforcing the Sedition Act that criminalized critical speech, to Woodrow Wilson suppressing ...

The Trump administration argued to both the First Circuit and Supreme Court in recent days that its new postal restrictions ...

In the annals of true-but-irrelevant statements, a snippet from a recent Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision deserves an honored place. “The First Amendment’s protection does not depend on the ...

Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.

Presumptively Protected. The Second Circuit initially concluded that Leroy’s message doesn’t fit within an unprotected category of speech. Although offensive, his post isn’t a true threat of violence.

A federal judge explained that the First Amendment protects a wide range of speech, including offensive content. The First Amendment applies to government restrictions on speech, not to rules set by ...