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President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued Executive Order 14160 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The directive attempted to nullify birthright ...
Since this is the first dedicated First Amendment beat in the nation, I have a consistent onslaught of story tips coming in from across the country.
The First Amendment serves as a check on government intervention into our public expression through, for example, spoken or visually signed speech, writing, protesting and coding languages like ...
Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...
KITE & KEY MEDIA: The story of America is, in many ways, the story of The First Amendment. And when it comes to free speech, our standards are different than almost anywhere else in the world ...
We get ourselves called (and we proudly accept) a name that has a nice double meaning for me: First Amendment absolutists. Here’s why I like this quasi-ironic term.
Levy also argued that even for the federal government, the First Amendment was meant only to forbid prior restraint, which is why the short-lived Sedition Act of 1798, which was practically ...
The First Amendment was written in the 18th century with the noble and vitally important goal of ensuring robust political debate and a free press.
Let's deal first with the court's holding that protecting its citizens from foreign espionage "is not an important Montana state interest." This is a legal holding, so evidence is irrelevant for ...
My name is Angele Latham, and I am the First Amendment reporter at The Tennessean — a first-of-its kind beat created through a partnership with The Tennessean, the Freedom Forum and the ...
Why the First Amendment also protects code Programming languages like HTML, JavaScript and Python are a protected form of expression in the United States. But that protection is not absolute.