First Amendment Archives

Kat abughazaleh at an anti-ice protest at the broadview uscis processing center

Kat Abughazaleh is one of six activists facing federal conspiracy charges for actions like blocking an ICE agent’s car in Broadview, Illinois.

Nokings app for immigrants detained by ice. Event poster

Why the No Kings Protests Matter

by Nicole Carty, The Intercept

October 18, 2025

The Trump administration has made it clear that it fears mass, nonviolent protests like NO KINGS more than anything else.

New Pentagon policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom

by Amy Kristin Sanders, First Amendment Expert

October 17, 2025

Press freedom advocates warn that recent changes in a Pentagon policy threaten journalists’ ability to cover the Department of Defense (not War).

He had his visa revoked after posting about Charlie Kirk on X

by Shawn Musgrave, The Intercept

October 16, 2025

Nota Baloyi is one of several people who had a visa revoked because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.

The limits of free speech protections in American broadcasting

by Michael Socolow, Professor of Communication

October 14, 2025

As a media historian, I’m aware of the long-existing bipartisan enthusiasm for exploiting the fact that no First Amendment exists in American broadcasting.

U. S. Constitution political violence first amendment meets the second amendment

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Political Violence: What can happen when First Amendment meets Second Amendment

by Gregory P. Magarian, Law Professor

October 10, 2025

The issue of political violence in the United States is complicated by the proliferation of guns in the country making acts of violence easier to carry out.

Photo of a wall with the "fouren freedoms" at the franklin delano roosevelt memorial, washington dc.

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How the First Amendment does and doesn’t protect speech

by Ray Brescia, Albany Law School

September 28, 2025

“The Nation well knows that one of the costs of the First Amendment is that it protects the speech we detest as well as the speech we embrace.”

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How Charlie Kirk echoes Horst Wessel

by Benny Craig, LAProgressive

September 23, 2025

Most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.

President obama on the jimmy kimmel show in 2015

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Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump

by Wayne Unger, Assoc. Law Professor

September 20, 2025

Perhaps the most notable reaction to remarks seen as controversial about the Kirk killing hit ABC comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

A brain wrapped in chain with a padlock. Thought police

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Whispers of Freedom: Life under Thought Police control

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

September 16, 2025

Marco Rubio has been given extra power (A bill currently in Congress will do just that). This is a story of life in post-free speech America with the Thought Police.

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The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone

by Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin

August 4, 2025

President Trump has always attacked the press through his rally speeches and rhetoric. Now he’s doing it through the courts.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding

by Shauneen Miranda

August 3, 2025

PBS is shutting down after Republicans took their funding away for Donald Trump because he didn't like muppets mocking him on Sesame Street. I hope they realize Americans in rural areas depend on PBS for their weather alerts because there's no cell service, internet, or cable.