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FIRE Attorney Zach Silver on the First Amendment Right to Record Police in Pennsylvania

Silver outlined the First Amendment issues in the case and discussed why qualified immunity should not apply.

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Judge Throws Out Campaign Finance Lawsuit Between Republican Rivals in Georgia Governor’s Race

The suit says the committee gives Lt. Gov. Burt Jones an edge that violates Chris Carr’s constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection.

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Online Age Checks Are Proliferating, but So Are Concerns They Curtail Internet Freedom

What’s considered harmful to minors can be subjective, and this is where experts believe such laws run afoul of the First Amendment.

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Judge Questions if Spanish-Language Journalist Can Stay in Immigration Detention Without Charges

A petition filed in court last week says the government is violating Mario Guevara’s constitutional rights to free speech and due process.

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Trump’s Order on Flag Burning Could Return the Question to the Supreme Court

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that Johnson’s act of flag-burning constituted expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.

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James Madison
[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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