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Journalist Glenn Greenwald said Thursday on Rumble’s “System Update” that newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) commitment to First Amendment issues is a “gigantic advancement over Kevin McCarthy.”

A divided Supreme Court ruled the Biden White House can resume censoring conservatives on social media for now; Alito called it “highly disturbing.”

The police chief of Marion, Kansas, has been suspended after he ordered raids on the office of a small, local newspaper and the home of its publisher.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether Florida and Texas Big Tech laws violate the First Amendment, teeing up a major constitutional fight over attempts by conservatives and Republicans to fight leftwing bias in social media companies.

Breitbart’s Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle will speak at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce’s conference in Washington, DC, on September 19.

A Virginia teen said his First Amendment rights are being violated after the school told him to remove the American flags from his truck. 

Police recently raided a local Kansas newspaper over a reporter allegedly lying or misrepresenting herself when accessing legal documents.

Former President Donald Trump will hold a ‘major’ press conference next week to address his fourth indictment.

The Marion County Record, the small-town Kansas newspaper raided by the local police department last Friday, had reportedly been investigating sexual misconduct allegations against the chief.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-HI) blasted the “politicized” and “disqualified” Justice Department’s fresh indictment of former President Donald Trump, along with its willingness to “destroy” the Democrats’ main political opponent and “protect the Democrat elite.”

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team argued Special Counsel Jack Smith’s proposed protective order should be narrowed because it would violate Trump’s First Amendment right to free speech in a 29-page filing on Monday.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz said Sunday that former President Trump should have the right to expose the evidence against him, despite Special Counsel Jack Smith’s effort to obtain a protective order against that disclosure.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken had the chutzpah to post a message on Friday denouncing Russia for “politically motivated” charges against Navalny.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley said Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump “basically just accuses him

Senate Democrats’ demands for conservative private citizens’ interactions with Supreme Court justices are unconstitutional, violating First Amendment and equal protection rights, according to lawyers representing Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned during a Thursday hearing on censorship at the House Weaponization Subcommittee that “a government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity.”

Professor Will Moravits  was reportedly fired from St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas, after making a student “uncomfortable” for allowing open debate on topics such as homosexuality and policing. The professor’s lawyer says that he expects the college “to begin acting like a real educational institution that serves the Texas taxpayers rather than some sort of self-appointed cultural centurion that enforces ideological orthodoxy.” The lawyer added that the College’s action again “is a travesty and basically a fraud on the Texas taxpayers, not to mention suppression of his First Amendment rights and a violation of the Community College Districts own academic freedom policy to boot.”

The SCOTUS decision on a Christian designer’s convictions about gay marriage was a “win for all Americans,” according to Franklin Graham.

The Supreme Court held Friday that the State of Colorado cannot force a website designer to create messages that support same-sex marriages against her religious beliefs, citing her rights under the First Amendment.

United Airlines demands employees who are suing the company over its coronavirus vaccine mandate turn over their private communications with pastors or religious advisors related to the vaccine, court filings show.

U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman temporarily blocked police in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday from enforcing the city’s ordinance against vandalism because of First Amendment concerns it censors free speech.

TikTok Inc filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana’s ban on the short-form video platform, arguing the ban violates the First Amendment.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is being sued by a restaurant after the state implemented a ban on “family friendly” drag shows.

California officials have agreed to pay $1.4 million to a handful of churches that challenged the state’s mandate for health insurance plans to include coverage for abortions.

A group of five TikTok users have reportedly launched a lawsuit aimed at preventing Montana from banning the platform.

The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has claimed that the state of Montana’s ban on the app violates the First Amendment.

A Massachusetts middle schooler and his family are suing Nichols Middle School for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights after he was told to remove his shirt, which had the phrase “there are only two genders” written on it.

Just the News CEO and editor-in-chief John Solomon partnered with Brave Books to release Hidden Headlines, a children’s book that empowers “parents and grandparents to teach new generations about the dangers of censorship and the essential role of free speech in the American experience.”

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak told C-SPAN’s Book TV on Sunday that there was a crucial difference between “book bans” and legitimate decisions about what should appear in a school curriculum. The issue is a hot topic in California, where

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) did a victory lap on Twitter on Monday after news broke that Tucker Carlson was leaving the Fox News Channel — a day after Ocasio-Cortez accused him of “incitement of violence.”

There is no problem in the United States with religious discrimination in the workplace, the Biden administration argued to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

California bill AB 587, touted by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom as a fix for “disinformation” on social media, has been challenged by a First Amendment lawsuit brought by podcaster and journalist Tim Pool, satirical website the Babylon Bee, and Minds.com, a free-speech friendly social media platform.

Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a new statement addressing the disruption of Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech, and the next steps that the law school will take.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Janet Yellen about censorship of online communications to prevent a “social media internet-based bank run.”

California parents filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s exclusion of religious schools in special education funding.

One in four college faculty members says they are very or extremely likely to self-censor in academic publications, and over one in three do so during interviews or lectures, according to a survey sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). This means that self-censorship among college faculty is far more prevalent than it was during the McCarthy era.