Whoopi Goldberg said the First Amendment ‘doesn’t allow you to willingly lie.’ That’s mostly false. In most cases, the First Amendment considers lies to be protected speech.

Missouri GOP Rolls Out Underhanded Effort to Overturn Abortion Rights Amendment State Rep. Brian Seitz says his proposal to put a new, anti-abortion amendment on the ballot isn’t an abortion ban ...

How a Three-Word Phrase Sabotaged Black Voting Rights, and How They Can Be Reconstructed There’s power in the 14th Amendment. It’s time to use it.

But here, an errant usage of the word "person," instead of "citizen," could extend Second Amendment rights to many aliens incarcerated on gun charges. Start your day with Reason .

Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at Chicago, is something of a free speech purist. He chaired the committee that wrote the much-emulated Chicago statement on ...

The district states the word was used in a discussion about the First Amendment. "I can confirm a JROTC instructor used the word during a class discussion around the First Amendment and language ...

Walton Goggins Hilariously Reboots the 2nd Amendment With 1 Word. The actor's 'SNL' appearance was full of memorable moments. Author: Ryan Britt. May 11, 2025 7:40 AM EDT.

The amendment was defeated 57 percent to 43 percent. This fall’s Issue 2 will be a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana, whose ballot language cleared the committee Thursday without ...

In the spring of 1971, his case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where nine aging justices, all men, were called upon to decide whether the F-word was indeed “unprintable language” that could ...

A retired serviceman got away with using the N-word because of his First Amendment rights – even though offensive words could instigate a fight.

The New Yorker's Evan Osnos joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his new article "How Donald Trump Could Get Fired" and the conversation happening in this country about Trump's ability to do the ...