October 30, 2025; Washington, D.C. — Today NPR marked a significant milestone in our case to protect First Amendment rights for the public media system. The court hearing our challenge to the Trump ...
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of some agency employees when it sent out-of-office messages on their behalf that blamed Democrats for ...
A Florida federal judge ruled that a school district's removal of an LGBTQ+ book did not violate First Amendment rights. The judge stated that school libraries are not public forums and curating books ...
CHICAGO (WGN) – The Dirksen Federal Courthouse saw a fair share of activity on Wednesday all centered around protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the conduct of federal agents. Luci Mazur was ...
WASHINGTON — American presidents have long tested the bounds of First Amendment protections. From John Adams enforcing the Sedition Act that criminalized critical speech, to Woodrow Wilson suppressing ...
Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...
A Boston federal judge upheld the First Amendment rights of noncitizen protestors Sept. 30 in one of the most significant legal battles of President Donald Trump’s second term. Crowd from the Boston ...
Attorneys for the nation’s largest federal employee union warned this week that the August decision to allow President Trump’s executive orders stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their ...
As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for ...
A First Amendment activist known as "Press NH Now" filmed a confrontation with the Panama City Police Department. The activist, Marc Manchon, argued with officers over his right to film on public ...
Fourteen of Texas’ Independent School Districts (ISDs) were ordered to temporarily stop displaying the Ten Commandments in their classrooms after a federal judge in San Antonio determined the new ...
A federal judge in Idaho ruled that a public charter school violated a church’s First Amendment rights when it canceled a lease that allowed the church to hold Sunday services inside its gymnasium.