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Fourth of July is a reminder to understand your First Amendment rights
As we celebrate our nation's founding in a tumultuous time, holiday serves as a reminder to appreciate the freedoms enshrined ...
Pride Is a Triumph of the First Amendment
Free speech, assembly, protest, and First Amendment rights—not government action—have powered LGBTQ+ progress in America.
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‘A firewall’: Delaware lawmakers approve first leg of amendment removing death penalty from state constitution
The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.
University of Chicago Law School8d
Genevieve Lakier Discusses Spending Cuts, Public/Private Distinction, First Amendment
In 1943, in what would become one of the most famous opinions in the First Amendment canon, Justice Robert H. Jackson described the difficult task that courts faced when asked to apply the federal ...
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Election as a Distinct Sphere Under the First Amendment
The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...
Publishers Weekly12d
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those ...
Port City Daily6d
Pender newspaper claims First Amendment violation in county lawsuit
The ongoing dispute between the Pender-Topsail Post & Voice and Pender County has escalated, with the local newspaper issuing ...