The First Amendment and other constitutional rights generally only apply to government actors, officials and institutions. Facebook, Twitter and other platforms are private entities. As such, under ...

The First Amendment — and its protection of free speech — may be the best-known and, possibly, the most cherished of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. But there is also a long-running ...

The Supreme Court declined to hear several First Amendment appeals on Monday, ditching a case that dealt with a requirement that gun dealers in Maryland display suicide prevention literature and ...

First Amendment. More Than Half of Americans Think the First Amendment Provides Too Many Rights "Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties," said one researcher.

The U.S. Constitution turns 229 years old on Saturday. Originally written on parchment, the venerable document has now received a 21st-century face-lift, courtesy of the National Constitution Center ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Biden administration most likely overstepped the First Amendment by urging the major social media platforms to remove misleading or false content ...

First, it overstates the ... Second, the question understates the importance of using the amendment process to define power structures, rather than simply layer-on still more parchment barriers. After ...

In Federalist Paper 48, James Madison warned us that the provisions of the Constitution were only “parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power.” ...