A 6-3 conservative court will hear a broader range of controversial cases, shift interpretations of individual rights and put more pressure on local democracy to make policy decisions.
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Banning the Chinese-owned social media platforms raises free speech concerns and could worsen the US-China trade war.
A Florida minister and a conservative lawmaker filed suit against a county law mandating mask wearing, saying it violates the freedom of religion. A constitutional law professor says they’re wrong.
The lawsuits filed in Portland sparked by the presence of federal law enforcement agents sent there by President Trump are a preview of the legal battles to come in cities across the US.
A constitutional law scholar says that the arguments made by anti-mask protesters that the Constitution protects their freedom to go maskless are just wrong.
In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court said that teachers at a Catholic school performed religious duties and were not protected by workplace discrimination laws.
The former national security adviser seems likely to be sued and could face criminal liability.
For almost a century, American popular culture has perpetuated the idea that only journalists working in foreign countries could be in danger.
The US president is punishing Twitter for using a factcheck to point out that one of his tweets is incorrect.
When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
There’s no First Amendment in the workplace, which leaves worker activists at the whim of their employers.
There’s been a reversal of power between religious and secular sides of American culture. The Supreme Court is now at the center of that shift.
New York’s Union Square is an important site in American labor history. One scholar’s research illustrates the shifting meanings and inherent tensions of public space as an epicenter of civic life.
In Trump’s America, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and scope of the First Amendment.
An American media scholar studying in Australia looks at the protections offered by the two countries for investigative reporting, raising crucial questions about journalism’s role in democracy.
Julian Assange’s indictment under the Espionage Act, a sweeping law with heavy penalties for unauthorized receiving or disclosing of classified information, poses a threat to press freedom.
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution of Assange may also pose a risk to the rights of journalists in the US.
It’s dangerous for the press to take up Julian Assange’s cause, two journalism scholars write. Assange is no journalist, they say, and making him out to be one is likely to damage press freedoms.
The growing number of self-taught, right-wing experts on the Constitution believe not only in the rights of white people, but have a comprehensive – if not comprehensible – view of the Constitution.
As more states move pass laws that deal with free speech on campus, a higher education scholar asks if they are moving in the right direction.
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