The Founders included the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution partly to protect religious rights. It was intended to keep the Federal government from interfering in religious practices and to keep it from establishing a national …
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation hails President Barack Obama’s statement in the State of the Union address about disclosing lobbyist contacts. The Obama administration has been fighting FOIA requests seeking identities of lobbyists …
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With its foundations in the freedom of speech, the current court voted 5-to-4 to allow corporate campaign spending, so as to not violate corporations’First Amendment rights as if they were people. Justice Sotomayor, appointed by Obama, …
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… the Supreme Court found that the Child Online Protection Act’s requirement that online publishers prevent children from accessing “material that is harmful to minors” is likely to violate the First Amendment. …
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A federal judge has ruled that the use of prayer to open a North Carolina county board of commissioners meeting violates the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge James A. Beaty Jr. on Thursday adopted …
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Although Leftists deny it, Thomas Jefferson was imply reiterating the principles in the First Amendment when he coined the phrase “separation of church and state” (a phrase found nowhere in the Constitution itself). …
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We may have a long list of 5–4 decisions ahead of us, but I would predict we’ll see the “Justices United” in favor of freedom of speech until one of the (relatively young and healthy) majority retires or dies. ….. He said of the United States, “Nowhere in the world is the danger of plutocracy as formidable as it is here.” The politicians who made the IRS their party’s tool, who used patronage to extend its rule, who invariably dropped men from the tax-funded WPA payroll …
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Siding with the ACLU, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the second Circuit found that the statute’s gag provisions violate the First Amendment. “We are gratified that the appeals court found that the FBI cannot silence people with complete …
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If you doubt that this is a tool of the state, read or re-read the brilliant mind altering treatise on “The People History of the United States,” by Howard Zinn, R.I.P. One cannot truly understand the situation that we ‘FILL IN THE BLANK’ … Unfortunately, it rarely stimulates a discussion about freedom of speech as described in the first amendment to the Bill of Rights. This continual bickering between us, and I mean all of us, must stop, or it will have the same dire …
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The First Amendment to the United States. Constitution. The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission is in a balancing act regarding artists in Basin Spring Park, Freedom of Speech, and their impact on the city’s retail community. … But a lesson in one aspect of the Bill of Rights seems called for. It’s the idea that counts. Perhaps most applicable to the Parks and Recreation Commission’s stand regarding art in the parks is the 1989 Supreme Court ruling regarding …
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