"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...
Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.
This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.
From State ex rel. Jackson v. TikTok Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Adam Conrad; I'm skeptical about the analysis, for reasons I hope to blog about later (I'm writing a journal article on the subject ...
At Supreme Court oral argument in the Texas social media case back in February, Justice Samuel Alito asked the question: “Let’s say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?” In Monday’s ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws passed by Republicans in Florida and Texas regulating content moderation at large social media companies, sending the ...
The Trump administration has failed to convince a federal judge that its efforts to penalize “diversity, equity, and ...
Fox News claims Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit could end free speech as we know it. Some First Amendment experts think it has a point.