The United Supreme Court has difficulty with new technology. The court ruled in Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Comm’n of Ohio (1915) that motion pictures were unprotected speech because “the ...

American colleges and universities are increasingly firing or punishing professors and other employees for what they say, whether it’s on social media or in the classroom. After the Sept. 10, 2025, ...

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights establishes rights to speech, religion, press, and assembly. Monday night in Austin and Dallas, police broke up protests in the streets over the federal ...

At an Estrella Mountain forum, Chief Judge Jennifer Zipps urged students to defend broad free speech rights under the First Amendment.

On the eighth episode of the ‘Seattle News Weekly’ podcast, Bill Wixey hosted Seattle University’s Dr. Caitlin Carlson who explained the scope and limits of the First Amendment, including which kinds ...

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 First Amendment states that the government "shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a potential nominee to the U ...

Anyone who communicates ideas about controversial topics in the United States ought to take a deep interest in protecting the First Amendment right to free speech. Yet the right has limits. A recent ...