…protect the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial. And defendants have First Amendment rights. So, if the defendant wants to speak, I can’t understand why a judge would…

…the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment are open to reexamination. Taking into account the majority’s additional criterion for overruling — that a case either was decided or reaffirmed…

…have rejected extreme abortion restrictions in every special election held since the decision. Now Republican legislators in Ohio are trying to head off an abortion rights amendment scheduled for a…

…filed a pre-enforcement challenge to the law in federal court. They object to same-sex marriage and argue that CADA compels their speech in violation of the First Amendment by requiring…

“Academics and freedom of speech,” The one-handed economist, David Zetland The First Amendment of the US constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free…

…hand to rights specifically enumerated in the Constitution. The 15th Amendment, for example, was ratified in 1870, five years after Union forces defeated a separatist rebellion dedicated to the cause…

…would continue to be considered valuable participants in national affairs, and had every intention of continuing to take part in them.  But the Fourteenth Amendment, which established that Black men…

…laws to be mostly similar to those in place in 1791 (the Second Amendment was enacted). Or the same as in 1868 when it was applied at the state level. This…

…violate the First Amendment because it was “of piece with a common-law tradition regarding the trademarking of names.” Barrett, writing a concurrence, was critical of Thomas’s emphasis on “historical analogues.” “That is…

…historians came together to debunk the president’s fatuous reading of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification clause. “We will win at history,” they told themselves, “and thus we will win the argument.”…