#First Amendment

#First Amendment

Since late January, leaders at liberal foundations and donor networks have been preparing for a legal assault by federal agencies. That moment finally arrived in September, when, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed federal prosecutors to investigate the Open Society Foundations on a range of possible criminal charges, reportedly on orders from the White House.

Seth Meyers used his NBC show to push back against President Donald Trump on Monday night, after the president claimed on Truth Social that Meyers' comedy was PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!! Trump attacked the host on Saturday, insisting the comedian may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise, and complaining that Meyers' act is now 100% ANTI-TRUMP which he added was PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!

Conversion therapy is the discredited and harmful practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. The therapist in the case (Kaley Chiles) argues that this law is an unconstitutional restriction on her speech: psychotherapy is, on her view, a kind of speech, and thus the state law violates her First Amendment rights. The state responds that psychotherapy is a medical procedure,

"[They] live under the constant gaze of DAS surveillance as the NYPD mounted a box with two cameras directly outside their home, aimed at their living room and bedroom windows," the lawsuit states. "The cameras' presence has transformed what should be their place of safety into a space of anxiety. They have covered their windows with foil to block the cameras' view, depriving themselves of sunlight and the simple enjoyment of looking outside."

On October 27, NAD ruled that the AT&T advertising and press release violated Section 2.1(I) of the NAD/National Advertising Review Board (NARB) procedures. That procedure was that NARB participants are "not to mischaracterize any decision, abstract, or press release issued or use and/or disseminate such decision, abstract or press release for advertising and/or promotional purposes." In other words, using the decisions as fodder for advertising or marketing is off limits.

Vargas cited the 1974 Supreme case Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc.: Under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as a false idea. It's the court's job, the judge said, to distinguish between fact and opinion, conducting its analysis through the lens of a reasonable listener in the overall context: a two-week feud that yielded a total of eight diss tracks between the two rappers.

This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the First Amendment, she said. This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protests and punish anyone who speaks out against them. That's why I'm going to fight these unjust charges. I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights.

hoping to build her large social media following into a platform to elected office. In September, she was in a viral video being tear-gassed and slammed to the ground by an ICE agent during protests outside an ICE facility in Broadview, a Chicago suburb. Earlier this month, Abughazaleh was again among protesters at the Broadview ICE facility and said that she was struck in the face with a baton by a police officer.

What does it take for a president of the United States to create and post an AI-generated video of himself wearing an imperial crown and dumping massive amounts of feces from a "King Trump" jet onto No Kings protesters marching below? It takes a president who has no respect for his constituents, whether they voted for him or not. It takes a president who has no respect for the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, assembly,

People lined the streets holding home-made signs for passing cars. People stated their love for America and its Constitution. There was as much flag-waving and wearing red, white and blue clothing as on any July 4th. Republican claims beforehand that they were Hate America rallies were so inaccurate as to be laughable. Flag-waving aside, what could be truer to American ways than people exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble and petition their government and tell it what they think of its policies?

The New York City Police Department wrote on X: "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The Austin Police Department wrote on X: "The rally remained peaceful, with no arrests reported. We're grateful to our community and event organizers for coming together to make sure voices were heard safely and respectfully."

Maryland will not be able to enforce part of a 2021 law that allowed it to obscure the costs of a digital ad tax from consumers who were paying it. The order - which will not be appealed by the state - strikes down one portion of the first-of-its-kind tax on digital advertising within the state. That provision prohibited online companies from alerting consumers to the tax, by passing it on to them as a surcharge, fee or line item on their bills.

Time didn't start yesterday. Conservative principles didn't just start being challenged in the last 8 years. The threat has been omnipresent. It may not have seemed as dire to some because that man was standing his post when the rest of us were not. You know why the First Amendment became a litmus test in Republican politics and in the judiciary? It was owned by the Left until McConnell started grilling every candidate, newly elected official, or prospective judge about it.

The Washington Post's media reporter Scott Nover detailed exactly who was left to cover the largest government agency. Pro-MAGA outlets The Federalist, the Epoch Times, and OAN all signed Hegseth's pledge, which said that journalists are banned from soliciting or obtaining any information that is not pre-approved by the Pentagon. Nover reported on the other remaining people in the building: A reporter for the Turkish newspaper Aksam signed the agreement, as did three individuals from the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency and two Turkish freelancers.

We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts, and the courts said you have freedom of speech but what has happened is when you burn a flag, it agitates and irritates crowds never seen anything like it, on both sides and you end up with riots. So we're going on that basis. We're looking at it from, not from the freedom of speech, which I always felt strongly about, but never passed the courts.