#first-amendment

#first-amendment

Now all of the late night shows are going dark, so that Stephen gets all the shine. That's how you stand up for each other. Excuse me, hold on. Press Corps, White House Press Corps! Are you listening to this? All of his competitors, all of his colleagues, Stephen Colbert, they're going dark because they want to give him the shine! They want give him support.

Carter, who wrote the bible of late-night TV books, 1994's "The Late Shift," as well as its acclaimed 2010 follow-up, "The War for Late-Night," was responding to a question about Colbert's finale for "The Colbert Report," when the in-character host invited an impossible number of guests onto his tiny studio stage for a closing sing-a-long set to Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again."

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk's death, Larry Bushart's case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led to criminal prosecution. The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October.

Employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the union representing the agency's workers are suing the secretary of the deparment over a series of emails promoting Christianity. The workers and the National Federation of Federal Employees alleged in a federal complaint filed Wednesday that Secretary Brooke Rollins "has adopted a practice of sending increasingly proselytizing communications to the entire USDA workforce, promoting her own preferred brand of Christian beliefs and theology."

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories, finding that the Trump administration likely violated her free speech rights by imposing the measures after she criticized US ally Israel's war on Gaza. The sanctions barred her from entering the US and banking there. Albanese, an Italian lawyer who is UN special rapporteur on the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories, recommended the international criminal court pursue war crimes prosecutions against Israeli and US nationals.

The Republican legislator agreed to delete several tweets and clarify the personal nature of her X/Twitter account. The agreement stems from a disciplinary probe that City Council's Ethics Committee pursued against Paladino in March over anti-Muslim tweets she posted on her X account. Paladino then filed a lawsuit in response to prevent the council from taking any disciplinary actions against her, arguing that the committee was unevenly enforcing its anti-discrimination powers against her for exercising freedom of speech.

The Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026, advertised online, is part of a tour that includes locations like Flatbush and Queens, and is set for May 5 in Manhattan.

"Allowing judges to be disciplined based on the perceived 'tone' or 'volume' of lawful speech promotes arbitrary enforcement, invites political interference in the judicial branch, and threatens to undermine the rule of law."

Moeel filed a motion to suppress that evidence in court ahead of trial, where defendants face maximum sentences of 14 or 15 years in prison for charges including felony conspiracy, false imprisonment and trespassing to interfere with a business.

The US Supreme Court sided with First Choice Women's Resource Centers, reviving a federal lawsuit challenging a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general. The subpoena sought internal records, including donor and doctor information, amid allegations of deceptive practices.

Menlo Park wants to start charging people to exercise their constitutional rights. How long before the city slaps a tax on people who want to exercise their right to free speech, or to peaceably assemble?

The first reported case on the Bible in U.S. schools was in 1872, when the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed a ban against religious instruction in public classrooms.

Jiang was sitting right next to President Donald Trump and members of his administration on stage when suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen fired multiple shots in the venue's lobby, forcing Secret Service to rush those on stage to safety.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by exposing students to the state's chosen scripture all day, every day, gutting the constitutional separation of church and state in the process.

The Fifth Circuit decided 9-8 that the inviolable right of parents to direct the religious education of their own children means the inviolable right of parents to teach their kids about Texas Jesus.

Afroman's response to the botched raid was not just a legal victory; it was protest art in the modern age—raw, low-budget, absurdist, and deeply American.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all enjoy the freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think. The First Amendment is no word game. And the rights it protects cannot be renamed away or their protections nullified by mere labels.