“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press …” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon ...
In the guise of investigating 'potentially unlawful advertiser boycotts,' the commission is punishing the organization for ...
President Trump stated his administration "took the freedom of speech away" in relation to flag burning. Trump signed an executive order in August directing his administration to prosecute people who ...
President Donald Trump incensed his critics Wednesday for the way he described his executive order on flag burning. “We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts and the ...
On a Sunday evening in June 1964, about 20 men gathered at a farm in Ohio for a Ku Klux Klan rally. The event featured a cross burning, some stray racist and antisemitic remarks, and a short, ...
The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...
Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers ...
This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom on the internet in 35 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the ...
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the ...
People from across the political spectrum understand we can love our country while disagreeing with its current leaders. We all do it at some point. Remember how angrily people calling themselves ...
In the years since free speech and academic freedom experts Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman published their book Free Speech on Campus, which explained the importance of free speech at colleges ...
Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do. By ...