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.

In a pair of cases heard this month, the Supreme Court has faced collisions between the First Amendment’s right to speech and the unprecedented dangers presented by the internet and social media. The ...

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...

Amici are 22 legal scholars who research, teach, and publish scholarship on the First Amendment's free speech clause. Their names, their institutional affiliations, and examples of their relevant ...

Justice Samuel Alito slammed an appeals court on Tuesday for its ruling in a student free speech case, which he said in a dissent "departed from the standard" the Supreme Court had set for similar ...

The trial of overpass protester Joan Griffin has been rescheduled to Jan. 23, 2026, placing all three active Shenandoah County protest cases on the same afternoon docket.

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On my way to the Court, as I passed snow-covered federal buildings and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights.

Should people be allowed to say whatever they want? It's a tough question, and as our reliance on consuming and communicating through social media has increased, it's become difficult to think of a ...