Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...

In a 6-to-3 decision split along ideological lines, the Court ruled that lower federal judges had overstepped their authority by imposing nationwide injunctions ...

The lone Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Anna Gomez, began her speech in rural Kentucky last week with a warning. “This administration has been on a campaign to ...

A Taylor judge accused of misconduct raised his own allegations of being spied on in his formal response.

A federal judge in Tallahassee mostly denied requests to block parts of a new Florida law revising rules for ballot ...

First Amendment issues are in the national spotlight now, and The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com are going to shine a spotlight on all five of its freedoms, each of which protects the ...

Taylor Seely, who has covered Phoenix and other cities with skill and passion in her years with The Republic, is now the First Amendment reporter.

First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues Feds could censor chatbots if their "speech" isn't protected, Character.AI says.

Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident.

Monday’s flow chart dispensed with any mention of the word “fear” and instead laid out a more sober account of how local statutes interact with the Fourth Amendment: While employees can ...

Trump’s actions and rhetoric have served as a lightning rod of constitutional controversy, drawing concern from First Amendment advocates.