The Supreme Court decision in Counterman v. Colorado is largely good news for the First Amendment because it sets a higher bar for punishing speech as a “true threat.”
Throwing someone in jail for badmouthing a public official is profoundly undemocratic and un-American, but that didn’t stop police from arresting Robert Frese after he insulted them on Facebook.
FIRE files an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and reverse the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ ruling that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to a Texas law criminalizing certain forms of online speech.
FIRE filed an amicus brief asking a federal court to protect journalists’ right to cover the recently concluded 2022 midterm elections in Maricopa County, Arizona.
FIRE filed an amicus brief in the Connecticut Supreme Court with professor Eugene Volokh asking the court to remind police and prosecutors that an outdated "racial ridicule" law cannot be used to arrest people for speech that is not an advertisement.
Political boycotts are protected expression under the First Amendment, but a recent rash of laws bar government contractors from participating in boycotts of goods and services originating from Israel.