All this means is that the board has violated my First Amendment rights by silencing me and altering how I express my opinions." Here is a comment from one of his readers on another blog post about the issue which can be found here: …
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Or that someone can refuse to pay income taxes on religious or moral grounds by invoking the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Or that African-Americans are entitled to a special tax credit as reparations for slavery and other …
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And it is this first amendment which the President has violated with these attacks. It may not be Congress making any laws, but he is certainly putting these people on notice that he is willing to punish them with the government's power via his …
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In the recent "Citizens United" ruling, the U.S Supreme Court gave corporations and unions the same political speech rights as individuals under the First Amendment. The Court ruled that there was no basis for prohibiting corporations and …
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"To think that there's a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights," Nugent said. Nugent said he had … Earlier in the week, Nugent pleaded guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska, saying he was sorry for unwittingly violating the law. He told the AP …
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SOPA would have strengthened copyright laws, barring search engines and other websites from linking to sites that violated intellectual property regulations. That prompted a First Amendment concern from critics that it would give government …
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Gitlow argued that this circumstance violated the First Amendment, made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. In dictum (that is a portion of the opinion not directly deciding the case at hand), the Court said (and this is …
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Of course the right was not unlimited, just as the First Amendment's right of free speech was not, see, e.g., United States v. Williams, 553 U. S. ___ (2008). Thus, we do not read the Second Amendment to protect the right of citizens to carry …
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Jacob Sullum: FIRE, Firefly, And The First Amendment. Fighting censorship on campus. James Miller, a theater professor at the University of Wisconsin in Stout, is a fan of Firefly, Joss Whedon's short-lived science fiction series. Evidently Lisa …
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Kennedy also wrote that the broad protection of the principle behind the First Amendment applied to all individuals, either as persons or collectively in any association, such as a corporation, and that the government could not discriminate …
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