As Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, warns, “Free speech culture is more important than the First Amendment. ...

“When I look at the people who are out there doing the violence, that's not the people that we see during the day, who are legitimately out there exercising their First Amendment rights,” he said.

A federal judge later reversed the funding freeze, ruling that the government violated the First Amendment through its efforts to combat anti-Semitism. The Justice Department appealed the decision in December 2025.

Justice Elena Kagan said TikTok Inc. has First Amendment rights because it is a U.S. company, but she questioned whether the law affects those rights.

Judges Say CCP Could Violate Users’ First Amendment Rights The judges also ruled that potential content manipulation by the Chinese regime could infringe on Americans’ First Amendment rights.

The brief also contends that the First Amendment does not give students the right to force schools to include certain materials in the curriculum, highlighting the potential conflict with the establishment clause of that amendment.

District Judge Brett Ludwig said in his order that protesters, under the First Amendment of the Constitution, have the right to protest and march at the convention.

Holding to the claim that their First Amendment rights had been infringed, the defendants appealed. The case came before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, the plaintiffs said the Education Department’s Feb. 14 letter violates the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

First Amendment protections have broadly limited the federal government’s ability to circumscribe activity by even extremist organizations.

He and others have argued that their actions are protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“The question presented for our review is whether the theory of personal liability adopted by the Fifth Circuit violates the First Amendment,” the court stated.

District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled in favor of AP, which challenged the decision on First Amendment grounds.

It directs DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to ensure that agents are trained on the First Amendment right to record federal officers during public operations. The measure would also reduce immigration detention capacity.

Speech First argued that the policy runs afoul of the First Amendment-based free speech rights of its student members at Indiana University.

Both rights are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The appeals court could only interfere with the law if it violated the First Amendment, and it doesn't, he also noted. U.S. Circuit Judge David W.

The judge said the First Amendment doesn't apply to the actions and statements described by the prosecution.

A Fulton County judge has thwarted former President Donald Trump's attempt to get the Georgia election trial dismissed on First Amendment grounds.

DuBose also said the conditions were vague enough that they likely violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution.

The unions contend that this question violates the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by “[conditioning] federal employment on espousal of political viewpoints favorable to President Trump” and by “compel[ing] speech pertaining to

Constitution's First Amendment. Prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S.

The industry associations argued that the laws violate their First Amendment rights. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both planning to visit the southern border on Thursday.

This “content-neutral divestiture requirement” does not run afoul of the First Amendment, she said.

They argued that the indictments handed down by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office last year violate their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

“The First Amendment is a cherished and fundamental right, but with rights come responsibilities.”

The judge then gave Trump 28 days to amend the lawsuit. The first complaint amounted to 85 pages.

Mark Lanier, attorney for the plaintiff, did not target third-party content found on the platforms, which enjoys broad protection from the First Amendment and Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.

In 2023  journalist Simon Ateba sued the Biden administration on First Amendment grounds, alleging discrimination on the part of the press team.

Instead, she explained, “I am really worried about ... the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances.” Of course, the First Amendment was designed for environments of threatening circumstances.