#First Amendment

Articles (14)

• 🇺🇸 Judge says Pentagon must restore press access — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge blocked a restrictive new Defense Dept. press policy instituted after previously he ruled Pentagon press restrictions issued last year were unlawful.

  Related: #Government Transparency, #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 Judge Says Pete Hegseth Can’t Impose New Set Of Pentagon Press Restrictions: “The Curtailment Of First Amendment Rights Is Dangerous At Any Time” — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge said Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team have flouted his order striking down a set of Pentagon press access guidelines by trying to impose a new series of restri...

  Related: #Government Transparency, #Judicial Authority
• 🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Pentagon is violating court order to restore access to reporters — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters.

  Related: #Government Transparency, #Judicial Oversight
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court rejects citizen journalist's case against Texas officials who arrested her for reporting — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal to revive her civil rights claim against Laredo, Texas, officials.

  Related: #Press Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Judge strikes down restrictive Pentagon press policy, finding it violates First Amendment — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge has struck down some of the Defense Department's strict controls on how journalists with access to the Pentagon are allowed to report — ending a policy that caused many news outlets to...

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge warns revival of lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer 'imperils' First Amendment — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal appeals court judge is warning that her colleague's decision to revive a lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist poses a threat to First Amendment rights.

  Related: #Legal Liability
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court revives Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to protest ordinance — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court on Friday revived a Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to a city protest ordinance he was previously convicted of violating, making it easier for people to challenge laws they were c...

  Related: #Legal Challenge
• 🇺🇸 Jane Fonda’s Committee For The First Amendment Issues Response To FCC Chair Threats Against Broadcasters’ Iran War Coverage — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Ahead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda’s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalating attacks on free speech and media — a direct resp...

  Related: #Media Freedom, #Government Regulation
• 🇺🇸 Court rules first graders have First Amendment rights in Black Lives Matter dispute — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal appeals court has ruled that First Amendment free speech rights apply all the way down to first graders, as the judges weighed in on a tricky case involving a student who wrote a note to a B...

  Related: #Education, #Social Justice
• 🇺🇸 Judge Blocks DeSantis’s Declaration of Muslim Group as Terrorist Organization — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge found that the designation for CAIR, one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy groups, had violated the organization’s First Amendment rights.

  Related: #Religious Freedom, #Government Overreach
• 🇺🇸 Lawyers say Pennsylvania student protesters did not know a man who joined scrum was the police chief — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Lawyers for student protesters detained in Pennsylvania for four days after a scuffle with police say their clients had no idea the stocky older man in street clothes who joined the fray and put his a...

  Related: #Police Conduct, #Student Rights
• 🇺🇸 Court Rules Against Justice Dept. Search of Reporter’s Computers — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  The judge said the court itself would search the devices, which were seized from a Washington Post reporter’s home last month.

  Related: #Government Overreach, #Press Freedom, #Legal Procedure
• 🇺🇸 Judge blocks Trump DOJ from reviewing Washington Post reporter's seized data — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  A federal magistrate judge on Tuesday rescinded the Trump administration's ability to examine data seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson last month, saying he would "conduct an independ...

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Government Overreach, #Legal Proceedings
• 🇺🇸 Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  The order comes days after federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., tried and failed to get a grand jury to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin.

  Related: #Military Discipline, #Separation of Powers