#first-amendment

#first-amendment

Menlo Park wants to start charging people to exercise their constitutional rights. How long before the city slaps a tax on people who want to exercise their right to free speech, or to peaceably assemble?

The first reported case on the Bible in U.S. schools was in 1872, when the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed a ban against religious instruction in public classrooms.

Jiang was sitting right next to President Donald Trump and members of his administration on stage when suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen fired multiple shots in the venue's lobby, forcing Secret Service to rush those on stage to safety.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by exposing students to the state's chosen scripture all day, every day, gutting the constitutional separation of church and state in the process.

The Fifth Circuit decided 9-8 that the inviolable right of parents to direct the religious education of their own children means the inviolable right of parents to teach their kids about Texas Jesus.

The case examines whether a phrase can function as a protectable trademark or if it is simply a descriptive title, which has significant legal implications.

Renea Gamble, a 62-year-old grandmother, was arrested for wearing a 7-foot inflatable phallus at a protest, leading to viral bodycam footage of the incident.

Afroman's response to the botched raid was not just a legal victory; it was protest art in the modern age—raw, low-budget, absurdist, and deeply American.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all enjoy the freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think. The First Amendment is no word game. And the rights it protects cannot be renamed away or their protections nullified by mere labels.