A federal judge on Tuesday delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university ...

From today's decision in Melton v. City of Forrest City, written by Judge David Stras, joined by Judges Lavenski Smith and Ralph Erickson: Steven Melton is a pro-life, evangelical Christian. In June ...

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...

The First Amendment won out this week in a court case over a man who had repeatedly called for President Donald Trump’s assassination and openly fantasized about his violent demise. A jury in Virginia ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

A full federal appeals court will take up a battle about a 2023 Florida law designed to prevent children from going to drag ...

First Amendment freedoms shape how we live, work and connect with one another. These fundamental rights — freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition — form the foundation of American ...

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen’s suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered “pure speech” deserving of the highest ...

While we write from opposite ends of the political spectrum—one of us is a progressive democrat, the other a staunch conservative—we both agree that corporations were never intended to have as much ...

This Trumpian moment recalls the industry's infamous blacklist era. Fittingly, Jane Fonda has resurrected the Committee for the First Amendment. By Chris Yogerst “Any investigation into the political ...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the first time Friday that public library patrons have no right to receive information under the First Amendment, overturning a decades-old precedent barring ...