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First Amendment
Once again, holiday displays face First Amendment questions
It is the season for controversy about public holiday displays, and this year’s stories include a fight over a cross in Missouri…
Survey: High school students, teachers differ on the First Amendment
A new Knight Foundation survey shows high school students compared with their teachers more strongly support certain First…
CNN gets temporary due process ruling in Trump case
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Friday allowing CNN reporter Jim Acosta to regain his White House press…
Supreme Court takes Bladensburg Peace Cross case
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a highly publicized case from Maryland about the possible demolition of a memorial cross…
Supreme Court takes public access TV case with bigger implications
The Supreme Court will settle a dispute over a video that aired on a New York City public access television channel that could…
A tale of two crosses at the Supreme Court
Two different appeals at the Supreme Court are asking the Justices to reconsider rulings that bar the display of large crosses on…
Judge extends 3-D gun blueprint ban until case is resolved
A federal judge in Seattle has issued a preliminary national injunction blocking a website from offering 3-D-printer gun…
The Scopes Monkey trial and the Constitution
On July 21, 1925, the famous Scopes Monkey trial over teaching evolution in public schools concluded. Mostly remembered today was…
Has the First Amendment been “weaponized”?
The Supreme Court ended its latest term in mid-morning Wednesday after having set for itself and lower courts a daunting…
The partisan gerrymander dispute goes on
The Supreme Court, showing once again its reluctance to take a bold step to put some limits on the decades-long practice of…
