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Supreme Court Bans Protests on Court Grounds
A new Supreme Court regulation enacted Thursday banned demonstrations on its grounds just two days after a judge also barred processions and banners...
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Bill Making it Illegal to Expose Gun Owners' Names Sent to La. Compromise Committee
Louisiana legislators are taking another hard look at a bill that would make it illegal for journalists, bloggers, or anybody else to publish the...
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Is a Facebook ‘Like’ Protected Under the Right to Free Speech?
Six former sheriff’s department employees who said they were fired in 2009 for “Liking” their boss’ political rival on Facebook appeared in Virginia...
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Daily Caller: US Government Document Supports Sharia Law?
Conservative blog The Daily Caller is criticizing a 2011 Department of Homeland Security document, claiming the document proves the Obama...
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Raymond Michael Rodden Jailed After Photographing Courthouse
A Phoenix, Arizona man has been jailed and charged with unrelated crimes after taking photographs of a federal courthouse, according to the...
Jesus's Own Traditional Admonition Being Cast Aside?
Senate Staff Recommending a "Citizens United" decision for non-profits? The recent US Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend...
Judge orders sheriff to take a class on the 1st Amendment
Recently a US District Judge ordered a local sheriff to issue  a gun permit to an applicant... and, interestingly enough, to take a college...
Free Speech Threat: Lying About Being a War Hero a Crime?
Federal courts in California and Colorado are grappling with whether the First Amendment protects those who brag or exaggerate about their past, and...
Supreme Court Ruling Means Corporate Cash in Campaigns
By Robert Weissman Thursday, in the case Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to...
Supreme Court Refuses Case; Mom Can't Read Bible to Class
WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court has announced its refusal to hear the case of a Pennsylvania mother who was forbidden from reading a...
Religious Staff Must be Accountable for Sex Crimes
The First Amendment’s religious liberty provisions do not shield houses of worship from liability when their staff members or volunteers commit...
Is Christmas a Dirty Word?
By John W. Whitehead "Doesn't anyone know the true meaning of Christmas?" --Charlie Brown When I was a child in the 1950s, the magic of Christmas was...
The "12 Rules of Christmas" for Celebrating Holiday Legally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- Hoping to alleviate any confusion over the do's and don'ts of celebrating Christmas in schools, workplaces and elsewhere, The...
Supreme Court Refuses Case of Silenced Valedictorian
WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a high school valedictorian whose microphone was turned off by school...
Dogfighting Videos Protected as Free Speech Under 1st Amendment?
Dogfighting is against the law in the United States, and the great majority of people, except for a small number of individuals involved in illegal...
ACLU Sues to Remove War Memorial Cross
The ACLU is suing to remove a war memorial in the Mojave Desert that prominently features a cross, arguing that the memorial, which is on public land...
Hillary the Movie and the Unfairness of "Free Speech"
The Supreme Court has recently finished an unusual second round of hearings in the case of Citizens United v. FEC. The case concerns the government’s...
Atheists Fight Dept. of Homeland Securities Over "God"
"We're ready to take this to the Supreme Court" says attorney Edwin Kagin An Atheist civil rights group today criticized the Kentucky Attorney...
Lawsuit Progresses Against Religious Youth Home
A federal appeals court ruled that a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State...
Supreme Court to Rehear "Hillary-The Movie" Arguments
As Jacob Sullum has previously discussed, the Supreme Court heard arguments last term in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission....