Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge told students that the First Amendment protects far more speech than many Americans realize, including speech they ...

The First Amendment protects the public against the government suppressing speech, especially speech it doesn't like. But with millions of students across Arizona and the nation returning to the ...

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case allowing Texas officials to remove books from public libraries, ruling such collections are "government speech" and not protected by the First Amendment. This ...

If democracy is our nation’s engine, then political protest is its gas pedal — and it has been since our founding. Early Americans rose up to protest the tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, ...

A federal complaint alleged a first grader in California was punished for giving a "Black Lives Matter" drawing to an African American classmate in 2021. A court ruled in favor of the school district, ...

As the United States faces increasing incidents of book banning and threats of governmental intervention – as seen in the temporary suspension of TV host Jimmy Kimmel – the common reflex for many who ...

EXCLUSIVE — Two House Republicans are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case they say could strengthen First Amendment protections for religious speech, arguing police officers should not ...