From State ex rel. Jackson v. TikTok Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Adam Conrad; I'm skeptical about the analysis, for reasons I hope to blog about later (I'm writing a journal article on the subject ...

Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

On July 1, the Supreme Court issued one of its most significant decisions regarding First Amendment rights on the internet in the NetChoice cases. At issue were a pair of facial First Amendment ...

At Supreme Court oral argument in the Texas social media case back in February, Justice Samuel Alito asked the question: “Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?” In Monday’s ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws passed by Republicans in Florida and Texas regulating content moderation at large social media companies, sending the ...

Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the TikTok divest-or-ban bill against a constitutional challenge. The result was unsurprising given how poorly TikTok fared at September’s ...

"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

Fox News claims Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit could end free speech as we know it. Some First Amendment experts think it has a point.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 3, 2025 (Pool via AP).

The US Supreme Court this month declined to rule on whether Florida and Texas laws limiting social media platforms’ content moderation violates the First Amendment, sending the issue back to the lower ...