Questions about free speech and the First Amendment are often decided at the Supreme Court. Over the years, the Court has dealt with such contentious political speech cases as flag burning, campaign spending limits, and banning political films. While there is typically some disagreement on the Court on any individual case, the Court has long held that for any political…
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The freedom to associate with others and speak as a group is foundational to democracy. Individuals rarely can change their society, government, or laws ...
In 2009, before the Supreme Court, the government claimed it could ban the publication of a book, if that book contained a single sentence ...
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Can the government silence speech about an election simply because the speaker is a corporation? Can it deny voters the opportunity to hear a ...
Five years into his jail sentence for corruption, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is down to his last appeal, now at the U.S. Supreme ...
Last week, FiveThirtyEight published an article analyzing the First Amendment jurisprudence of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. While the overall thrust of the ...
Donald Trump is hardly the first public official to want to get back at his critics using libel laws. If he sues the publisher ...
On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky. In 2010, Minnesota prohibited a ...
You know, your smartphone might turn on you. Not due to artificial intelligence or the Rise of the Machines — that’s still science fiction. ...