"The 7 Articles and 27 Amendments of our Constitution are not only to be followed when it serves your purpose," Mills wrote.
"This is a [FirstAmendment] issue.
The court said that the parents suing California were likely to succeed in their argument that the policy violates their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the FirstAmendment.
June 30, 2026By Joseph Lord, Matthew Vadum, Sam Dorman, Stacy Robinson, Troy Myers
Observe that the language of the FirstAmendment restricts only Congress—not other branches of the federal government. The rest of the Bill of Rights limits all parts of the federal government, but the FirstAmendment does not.
City of Brandon, involves the FirstAmendment but in a less direct way. Under Section 1983, Americans can sue governments for violating their FirstAmendment and other constitutionally protected rights.
Johnson, declared that the act of flag desecration was protected as symbolic speech under the FirstAmendment. Trump directed the attorney general to pursue charges in line with the FirstAmendment.
Lemon cited FirstAmendment protections for speech and assembly, while Parnell responded that his priority was protecting the congregation and his family.
In his March 20 ruling, Friedman wrote that the drafters of the FirstAmendment “believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech.”
SAN DIEGO—The city of San Diego's ban on yoga classes in public parks and beaches was ruled unconstitutional on June 4 by a federal appeals court that found such classes are protected by the FirstAmendment.
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Wixon held that noncitizen "resident aliens" still enjoy FirstAmendment protections, including when facing the threat of deportation by the federal government.
Menendez said in her ruling that the plaintiffs were engaged in activity protected by the FirstAmendment and that the responses by law enforcement chilled that activity.
Herridge and Fox News fought the request, saying the Constitution’s FirstAmendment shields them from most requests and that Chen had not met the threshold to overcome that protection.
“The FirstAmendment protects speech and peaceful assembly—not rioting,” Noem wrote on X. “This administration is committed to upholding federal law and defending the rights of all Americans. These agitators will be held accountable.”