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,
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,
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.
Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution's First Amendment. "These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They're publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing public events," says David Greene, a civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr is set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee after weeks of bipartisan outrage over his role in the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show. Carr came under fire in September after suggesting that Disney and its subsidiary ABC could face regulatory consequences over Kimmel's on-air comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The remarks preceded Kimmel's suspension by ABC, which lasted nearly a week before his show was reinstated and followed a pile on by affiliate
During the trial, lawyers for the associations presented witnesses who testified that the Trump administration had launched a coordinated effort to target students and scholars who had criticized Israel or showed sympathy for Palestinians. Not since the McCarthy era have immigrants been the target of such intense repression for lawful political speech, Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, told the court. The policy creates a cloud of fear over university communities, and it is at war with the First Amendment.
