The First Amendment still confuses us today: Everything to know

The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...
Reason

Symmetry in Interpreting the First Amendment and the Structural Constitution

My earlier posts on my book Constitutional Symmetry explained the basic idea of favoring symmetry and summarized the practical and theoretical reasons for this approach. In addition to advancing this ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

First Amendment rights for non-citizens? An expert weighs in

ATTORNEY. SO, KAREN, WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT? WELL, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE IT CLEAR THEY DON’T BELIEVE THIS, RIGHT? APPLIES TO EVERYONE HERE IN THE U.S. HERE’S VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE LAST ...
Houston Public Media

The First Amendment may not always mean what you think it means

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 ...

Florida bill targeting public unions raises First Amendment questions

Florida's proposed union bill, SB 1296, faces bipartisan opposition from public workers who say it guts their First Amendment ...
Opinion

Justice Neil Gorsuch: Why Originalism Is the Best Approach to the Constitution

Originalism teaches only that the Constitution’s original meaning is fixed; meanwhile, of course, new applications of that meaning will arise with new developments and new technologies. Consider a few ...