Lawyers for two photographers are asking federal appeals courts to affirm their clients’ First Amendment rights and allow them to “create freely,” citing a Supreme Court ruling in June that allowed a Christian web designer to decline requests to create sites for same-sex weddings. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group, are defending the…

Commentary A recent federal court ruling has many people questioning whether the First Amendment, and its protection of our bedrock freedom of speech, has been extinguished in our country. I want to help clarify the status of this epic, high-profile case that is currently trending in the media… Missouri v. Biden, which I mentioned briefly in my…

Parents of parochial school students in Pennsylvania are suing a public school district, alleging officials violated their rights by not allowing their children to participate in the district’s extracurricular programs. Their legal complaint claims the State College Area School District (SCASD) and its board discriminated against Centre County students who attend religiously affiliated institutions by…

The street preacher who was arrested by police shortly after arriving at a June 3 LGBT pride event sponsored by the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, is suing the police, the city, and Reading Mayor Eddie Moran. The group Reading Pride Celebration partnered with the city for a ceremonial raising of the rainbow flag at Reading…

“I think this might be one of the most consequential decisions in First Amendment jurisprudence in 200 years. You have a federal judge, in a case brought by two states in America—so, two attorney generals: Missouri and Louisiana—saying that the federal government has violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by colluding widely…

“I think this might be one of the most consequential decisions in First Amendment jurisprudence in 200 years. You have a federal judge, in a case brought by two states in America—so, two attorney generals: Missouri and Louisiana—saying that the federal government has violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by colluding widely…

“I think this might be one of the most consequential decisions in First Amendment jurisprudence in 200 years. You have a federal judge, in a case brought by two states in America—so, two attorney generals: Missouri and Louisiana—saying that the federal government has violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by colluding widely…

On July 4, 11 federal agencies and dozens of their officials were legally blocked from further interaction with more than 20 social media companies about the censoring of information deemed by the government as misinformation. Communication about criminal activity, national security threats, attempted foreign influence, cyberattacks, illegal campaign contributions, and voter suppression are exempt from…

Commentary They no longer deny censoring. They have shifted tactics. Now they defend censorship as a policy in the national interest. They are merely stamping out disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation—strange words applied to any thought or idea disliked by government. And they are furious that a federal judge in Louisiana has called them out, issuing…

The Supreme Court ruled on June 30 in favor of Christian bakers who said Oregon’s law requiring them to make cakes to celebrate same-sex weddings infringed on their constitutional rights. The decision came hours after the nation’s highest court issued a landmark 6–3 ruling in favor of Christian website designer Lorie Smith of 303 Creative who…