First Amendment

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.

This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.

California lawmakers debate barring Communist party members from government jobs.

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

How efforts to bolster religious liberty set off a chain of unintended consequences.

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

Revisiting the AAUP's 1971 UCLA investigation.

The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

Communists were excluded from an Oklahoma Pride festival recently, a reminder of how easily the Red Scare’s mechanisms for state repression can be revived.

Library book bans are fueling national fights and a new Florida lawsuit. But only one case has come before the Supreme Court: Island Trees v. Pico.

As modern lawmakers consider various means of public assistance for local news, they can learn from the founders’ approach to supporting journals and gazettes.

The state wants to severely limit what professors can say in the classroom.

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.

Breaking down the myths of originalism and America's founding.