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.

First Amendment experts expect major developments in issues like age verification, artificial intelligence and academic ...

The United States Military Academy is being sued by one of its own professors, who alleges that a new policy violates the First Amendment. The longest serving law professor in the history of the U.S.

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative ...

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is widely hailed as one of the most powerful pieces of legislation ever enacted, protecting core freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, ...

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ...

In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny. However, the Constitution actually advanced ...

From its frequent references in political speeches to its appearances in popular culture, the United States Constitution is perhaps the best-known document in the country. But beyond possibly having ...

A federal appeals court judge who was included on U.S. President Donald Trump's short list of potential Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.