#first-amendment

#first-amendment

What came first, North or South Dakota? Thanks to the likes of former President Benjamin Harrison-who deliberately shuffled, reshuffled, and then shuffled again the two papers that would make the two territories into states in 1889- we will never know. But it appears that, as the old adage goes, history has repeated itself-and this time, North Dakota is following its sister state in kicking the First Amendment to the curb and throwing a litigative hissy fit over the abortion pill.

What I would've done, Jen, is I would've said No, we live in a country where we welcome dissent, we welcome the right to peaceably assemble. We welcome that. And so, we may not like it [because] it is uncomfortable. But that is what protest is about discomfort. So since you're here, please, please, calm down, let's try to talk. What would you like us to do?

is now at risk of being pushed aside by more College Playoff Games, and Big TV Money

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, warning that the Pentagon's effort to punish him "sends a chilling message" to veterans who speak out against the Trump administration. Hegseth accused Kelly of "seditious" acts after Kelly publicly reminded US service members that they are not required to follow illegal orders. The Pentagon's actions against Kelly have troubling implications for the political speech of millions ofveterans, military law experts said.

"It's hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press," one critic said.

But inside the courtroom, the argument barely touched speech or religion. Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned. Does the Constitution operate only forward? Can a law be unconstitutional tomorrow yet legally untouchable yesterday? And can a single conviction permanently close the courthouse doors to the people most harmed by an unconstitutional rule?

Judge Noel Wise pressed government attorneys on how visa-revocation statutes are applied and whether they disproportionately target students who expressed sympathy for Palestinians during Israel's war in Gaza. She also questioned whether a chilling effect on speech, absent any formal enforcement action, is enough to show plaintiffs have been harmed.

The legal challenge centers on a 6 September letter Morath sent to school superintendents across Texas, instructing them to report educators who made what he termed reprehensible and inappropriate remarks about Kirk, who was shot and killed on 10 September while speaking at Utah Valley University. Public school teachers and other employees do not surrender their first amendment rights simply by virtue of their employment, the lawsuit reads.

It's not just courts telling these lawmakers they are wrong. EFF has spent the past year filing friend-of-the-court briefs in courts across the country explaining how these laws violate young people's First Amendment rights to speak and get information online. In the process, these laws also burden adults' rights, and jeopardize everyone's privacy and data security.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate Melissa McCoul, the instructor fired in September after a video showing a student confronting her over a gender identity lesson went viral, New York Times reported.

VIP argued that under the standard developed by the Second Circuit in Rogers v. Grimaldi 875 F. 2d 994 (2d Cir. 1980), an infringement claim against an expressive work must be dismissed unless a complainant proves the work "(1) has no artistic relevance to the underlying work and (2) explicitly misleads as to the source or content of the work."

When the U.S. government cut funding for local news stations, the Knight Foundation moved quickly to help stabilize a rapidly eroding industry. President and CEO Maribel Pérez Wadsworth unpacks the evolving roles of philanthropy and government, and why philanthropic organizations must learn to move at the speed of the news cycle. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian.

The conservative-majority United States Supreme Court is considering arguments in a case that could roll back existing limits on political party spending, potentially opening the door to further loosening campaign finance rules. Conservative justices, including Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, appeared receptive on Tuesday to a Republican-led push to overturn a 2001 court decision that upheld a federal election law more than 50 years old.

And while the paper he wrote about killing Mexicans and disenfranchising non-whites got him some notoriety, he wasn't in trouble over it per se. He got in trouble after he took to Twitter to announce that " Jews should be abolished by any means." That tweet was read as a threat by the university and prompted them to expel Damsky to prevent the campus from becoming hostile.

Jimmy Kimmel is staying with Disney a little longer.