First Amendment

A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.

Controversial artworks are flashpoints when artistic freedom and religious sensitivities collide.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

A legal expert offers a First Amendment analysis of the summer’s violent rallies.

Today, tech platforms, including social media, are the new common carriers.

When speech offends, who decides where boundaries should be drawn?

The landscape for educational freedom is finally freed of 19th century prejudices, but other federal constitutional questions remain.

The Supreme Court opened the door to challenges on school prayer, 60 years after a landmark ruling in Engel v. Vitale.

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

The motivations behind the Nixon administration’s decisions and use of ultimate discretion to exclude or deport were political and self-interested.

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

As ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ climbed the ratings ladder, the censorship bleep became a star of the show.

The state GOP's expulsion of legislators Justin Pearson and Justin Jones echoes Georgia's refusal to seat congressman Julian Bond in 1965 for opposing the Vietnam War.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Two new books make a devastating case against claims that the Constitution should be interpreted on the basis of its purported “original meaning.”

How progressives came to think that any recognition of Christianity by a public institution violates others’ rights.

The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some fundamental protections.

Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?

Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.