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.

Students' First Amendment rights are limited in schools, but not nonexistent. Schools can control student newspapers and ban speech promoting illegal drug use. While schools can remove books for ...

In sum, Florida protesters have free speech and assembly rights, but escalating to violence is not protected. Specifically, Florida's "anti-riot" law defines riots and mandates holding those arrested ...

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and ...

In New York, Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-war protester at Columbia University, was detained after the government accused him — without providing evidence — of Hamas ties. In Washington, Georgetown ...

Can foreigners legally residing in the United States be tossed out of the country for engaging in controversial or even vile speech? Court cases suggest the answer is "no" and uphold the idea that ...

In an annual report by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the First Amendment group found that students are reporting increasingly negative views of their free speech rights. The ...

FILE - This photo made available by the U.S. National Archives shows a portion of the first page of the United States Constitution. (National Archives via AP, File) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...

MU students stage a walkout and demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday, April 29, 2024 between Pickard Hall and the Residence on Francis Quadrangle in Columbia. University of Missouri ...

Imagine a protest outside the funeral of a popular political leader, with some of the protesters celebrating the death and holding signs that say things like “God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11,” ...