First Amendment to the United States Constitution
1791 amendment limiting government restriction of civil liberties
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🇺🇸 Prosecutors Put Rap Lyrics on Trial. Maryland Is About to Shut It Down
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🇺🇸 Faith lessons don't belong in public schools, and Christians know that
The collection of warm and fuzzy scriptures being considered for Texas curricula is likely just a Trojan horse for more extreme theology....
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🇺🇸 Judge orders Pentagon to let New York Times reporters back inA federal judge ruled Thursday that the Pentagon cheated when it tried to block access to all reporters in order to keep The New York Times out of the...
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🇺🇸 Judge Says Pete Hegseth Can’t Impose New Set Of Pentagon Press Restrictions: “The Curtailment Of First Amendment Rights Is Dangerous At Any Time”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 gui...
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🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Pentagon in violation of court order to restore reporters' accessA federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters, a setbac...
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🇺🇸 Judge orders Pentagon to restore press accessThe Pentagon is obstructing reporters and defying an earlier court order that required it to restore access to credentialed journalists covering the D...
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🇺🇸 Judge Rejects Hegseth’s Second Attempt to Restrict Reporters at PentagonA federal judge gutted a set of rules that were adopted after the court declared an earlier press policy unconstitutional, in a case brought by The Ne...
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🇺🇸 Judge says Pentagon must restore press access
A federal judge blocked a restrictive new Defense Dept. press policy instituted after previously he ruled Pentagon press restrictions issued last year...
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🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Pentagon is violating court order to restore access to reportersA federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters....
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🇺🇸 xAI sues Colorado over first state AI anti-discrimination lawElon Musk’s AI lab claims the regulations violate free speech protections...
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🇺🇸 Occupational licensing has a First Amendment problemThe associations that built these exclusive scope-of-practice laws now hold a narrower legal franchise than they did last month....
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court's conversion therapy ruling erases gay, transgender identityIn its recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court invalidated Colorado’s law prohibiting licensed counselors from engaging in efforts to ...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court ruling makes vulnerable children, and therapists, safer in ColoradoTherapy should be guided by clients’ values and sound clinical practice, not government mandate....
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🇺🇸 Ruling in Colorado conversion therapy case brings up free speech debateClick in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story SCOTUS ruling stirs First Amendment discourse The Supreme Cour...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court sides with therapist challenging Colorado ban on conversion therapyA Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth hit a potentially far-reaching roadblock at the Supreme Court. In an 8-1 decision, the ju...
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🇺🇸 Breaking down Supreme Court ruling in Colorado conversion therapy case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, siding with a counselor who argued the law violated her First Amendme...
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🇺🇸 Citing First Amendment, federal judge blocks Trump order to end funding for NPR and PBSCiting the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive...
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🇺🇸 Trump’s Executive Order on NPR and PBS Is Unconstitutional, Judge RulesThe ruling will likely have minimal effect on the federal money going to public media because Congress voted to claw back funding....
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🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Trump violated free speech by ordering NPR defunded
A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.<br>...
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🇺🇸 Judge Rules Trump’s Order to End Funding for PBS, NPR Was an Illegal First Amendment ViolationA federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to end funding for PBS and NPR public media violated the First Amendment. In a rul...
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🇺🇸 Trump’s Executive Order To Restrict Federal Funding To NPR And PBS Violated Constitution, Judge RulesA federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s executive order that prohibited federal agencies from providing funding to NPR and PBS. U.S. District Judge Ran...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court rules against state conversion therapy ban
Supreme Court rules against state conversion therapy ban...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court Justice signals strong disagreement in Colorado conversion therapy case ruling
The Supreme Court sided with a Colorado counselor in a challenge to the state's ban on conversion therapy for minors. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wa...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court rules against Colorado's ban on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ youthThe Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth violates the free speech rights of a conservative Christian therapis...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court rules against Colorado law banning conversion therapy
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado counselor who challenged a law banning conversion therapy for minors, ruling that lower courts failed t...
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🇺🇸 Judge sides with Anthropic to temporarily block the Pentagon’s ban
After Anthropic's weeks-long standoff with the Pentagon, the company won one milestone: A judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its laws...
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🇺🇸 Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban
The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."...
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🇺🇸 Anthropic wins preliminary injunction in DOD fight as judge cites 'First Amendment retaliation'
A federal judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Trump administration....
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🇺🇸 Why a 100-Foot Protest ‘Buffer Zone’ at Houses of Worship Won’t HappenA bill being voted on Thursday is a watered-down version of what the New York City Council speaker vowed to pass after an intense protest outside a sy...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in TexasThe justices left in place a divided federal appeals court ruling that found journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as La Gordiloca, could not ...
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🇺🇸 VOA journalists sue, accusing US government of forcing censorship, propagandaA handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote prop...
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🇺🇸 Pentagon Press Association calls for immediate restoration of members' credentials after rulingThe Pentagon Press Association is pressing for the immediate restoration of journalists' access to the Defense Department after a federal judge on Fri...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case
At issue was the 2017 arrest in Texas of a journalist who published news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash....
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court rejects citizen journalist's case against Texas officials who arrested her for reportingThe Supreme Court rejected an attempt by citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal to revive her civil rights claim against Laredo, Texas, officials....
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🇺🇸 Threats over Iran war bare Trump efforts to transform free speech: Experts
Threat to punish broadcasters for coverage not in 'public interest' comes amid wider roll-backs, analysts say....
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🇬🇧 Pentagon restrictions on press violate First Amendment, judge rulesThe Department of Defense had required reporters to agree to certain rules on what information they could gather in order to maintain access to the Pe...
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🇺🇸 DOD says it will appeal judge's ruling that said Pentagon's press restrictions are unconstitutionalDefense Department officials on Friday said they will appeal a federal judge's ruling that labeled the Pentagon's restriction on press access as uncon...
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🇺🇸 Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent JournalismThe ruling cut deeper than left-versus-right politics, declaring that the policy imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unconstitutional....
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🇺🇸 US judge sides with New York Times against Pentagon journalism policies
In his ruling, Judge Paul Friedman ruled the Trump administration sought to force out 'disfavoured journalists'....
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🇺🇸 U.S. judge rules against Pentagon restrictions on press coverage
The policy required media organizations to pledge not to gather information unless Defense officials formally authorized its release. A U.S. judge sai...
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🇬🇧 US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit<p>Lawsuit alleged changes gave DoD free rein to punish reporters and outlets over coverage it did not like</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguar...
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🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to policy limiting reporters' access to PentagonA federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, ruling that k...
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🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to Pentagon policy limiting reporters' accessA federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, agreeing with...
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🇺🇸 Judge strikes down restrictive Pentagon press policy, finding it violates First Amendment
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 ...
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🇺🇸 Judge rules Pentagon press policy under Hegseth unconstitutionalA federal judge ruled Friday that the Pentagon’s new policy restricting press access violates the First Amendment, siding with The New York Times. “Th...
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🇺🇸 Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are UnconstitutionalA federal judge tossed parts of the Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets, saying they violated the First Amendment, in a lawsuit brought by The New...
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🇺🇸 Judge Tosses Out Pete Hegseth’s Press Restrictions That Led To Exodus Of Journalists From PentagonThe Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access violate the First and Fifth Amendment, a federal judge ruled on Friday, delivering a victory to media ...
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🇺🇸 Judge warns revival of lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer 'imperils' First AmendmentA 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 Fir...
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court Allows Street Preacher’s LawsuitGabriel Olivier was arrested after violating an ordinance restricting demonstrations outside an amphitheater in Brandon, Miss....
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🇺🇸 Supreme Court revives Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to protest ordinanceThe Supreme Court on Friday revived a Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to a city protest ordinance he was previously convicted of violating, making ...
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🇺🇸 Nashville Reporter Released From ICE CustodyEstefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, who works for a Spanish-language outlet, was released on bond in a case that has raised concerns about press freedom....
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🇺🇸 What to Know About State Laws on Ten Commandments Displays in ClassroomsTexas, Louisiana and Arkansas have passed laws requiring the posters in public schools. Several other states are considering similar measures....
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🇬🇧 US rapper Afroman cleared after police sued him over use of home raid footage<p>Artist who topped UK charts with Because I Got High created comedic videos from footage, which officers claimed invaded their privacy</p><p>Chart-t...
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🇺🇸 Afroman Triumphs in Wild ‘Lemond Pound Cake’ Trial Filed by Cops
Police officers had sued the "Because I Got High" rapper after he turned footage of their botched raid on his home into music videos...
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🇺🇸 Afroman sued by deputies for music video showing raid of his home, says 'I got freedom of speech'A defiant Afroman testified he exercised free speech when he released a music video featuring images of Ohio deputies raiding his home....
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🇺🇸 Federal judge strikes down Arkansas Ten Commandments in public schools law
An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms has been struck down by a federal judge....
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🇺🇸 Hakeem Jeffries Vows An Investigation Of Brendan Carr After FCC Chairman’s Threat To BroadcastersHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is warning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr that he will be investigated “in short order” following his threat to pull ...
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🇺🇸 Jane Fonda’s Committee For The First Amendment Issues Response To FCC Chair Threats Against Broadcasters’ Iran War CoverageAhead of Oscars Sunday, Jane Fonda’s recently relaunched Committee for the First Amendment released a statement condemning and warning about escalatin...
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🇺🇸 Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr's broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, 'totalitarian'
Carr on Saturday blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."...
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🇺🇸 FCC chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right"
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could ...
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🇺🇸 Trump administration to drop charges against US veteran who burned flag
Veteran Jay Carey burned a US flag in protest of an executive order from Trump calling for prison terms for such acts....
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🇺🇸 Trump administration threatens news outlets over critical coverage of Iran
FCC chair says news outlets that share 'distortions' about US war with Iran could lose their licences....
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🇬🇧 Justice department drops charges against veteran who burned US flag<p>Jan ‘Jay’ Carey torched the Stars and Stripes to protest against Trump’s executive order banning flag burning</p><p>The prosecution of a man who <a...
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🇺🇸 How a first-grader taught her school district and a federal judge about free speechThis student just won a major free speech victory before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit....
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🇺🇸 Judge in Charlie Kirk murder case makes ruling on media access
Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, 22, who is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 shooting of Charlie Kirk....
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🇺🇸 DOJ moves to drop charges against man who burned U.S. flag outside White House
Jan Carey was facing two misdemeanor criminal counts in Washington, D.C., federal court....
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🇺🇸 Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with th...
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🇺🇸 Court rules first graders have First Amendment rights in Black Lives Matter disputeA 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 trick...
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🇺🇸 Noncitizen academics allege Trump immigration policy suppressing protected speech
A group of noncitizen academics is challenging the Trump administration over immigration policies that allegedly violate their First Amendment rights....
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🇺🇸 Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims
A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and conte...
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🇺🇸 String of legal wins offers hope to college protestersCollege protesters are riding high after a series of legal victories. After thousands of arrests and fierce pushback from schools during the 2024 pro...
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🇺🇸 ICE Detains Reporter Estefany Rodriguez Florez in Nashville
The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, who had sought asylum and is married to an American citizen, raised fears that she had been targeted...
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🇺🇸 Tennessee journalist detained by ICE sues, claims arrest violated her rightsEstefany Rodriguez's attorneys say she was complying with immigration officials and had no active case when agents took her into custody....
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🇺🇸 Judge weighs New York Times bid to block policy limiting journalists' access to PentagonA Pentagon policy limiting journalists' access to the building is depriving Americans of vital information about U.S. military operations while the co...
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🇺🇸 Judge seems skeptical of recent Pentagon policy restricting journalists' activities
Lawyers for the press asked a court to block the Pentagon from enforcing a recent policy restricting what journalists report, arguing it violates the ...
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🇺🇸 Judge Blocks DeSantis’s Declaration of Muslim Group as Terrorist OrganizationA federal judge found that the designation for CAIR, one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy groups, had violated the organization’s First Amendme...
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🇺🇸 Kanye “Ye” West Claims His Art Allows Antisemitic Speech in Legal Case Weeks After Issuing Mea Culpa
The rap mogul is involved in a workplace harassment case that seems to contradict the mea culpa he issued in January over years of similar language sa...
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🇺🇸 White House Correspondents’ Association Taps Mentalist Oz Pearlman As Entertainer At Annual DinnerThe White House Correspondents’ Association has selected mentalist Oz Pearlman as its headline entertainer at its annual dinner in April, bypassing th...
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🇺🇸 Lawyers say Pennsylvania student protesters did not know a man who joined scrum was the police chiefLawyers for student protesters detained in Pennsylvania for four days after a scuffle with police say their clients had no idea the stocky older man i...
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🇺🇸 Pentagon appeals order blocking punishment for KellyDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing an order barring punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz) after a video in which Kelly and other Democrats ...
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🇺🇸 Pentagon appeals order blocking Sen. Mark Kelly's punishment for call to resist unlawful ordersDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge's order that blocks him from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for partic...
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🇺🇸 Judge bars government from 'wholesale' search of Washington Post reporter's seized devicesFederal authorities are barred from conducting an "unsupervised, wholesale search" of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post repor...
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🇺🇸 The most patriotic thing broadcasters can do for America's 250thFCC Chairman Brendan Carr has urged broadcasters to air patriotic programming in celebration of America's 250th birthday, but a better idea would be t...
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🇺🇸 Court Rules Against Justice Dept. Search of Reporter’s ComputersThe judge said the court itself would search the devices, which were seized from a Washington Post reporter’s home last month....
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🇺🇸 Judge says Justice Department may not search Washington Post reporter's seized devicesA judge told the Justice Department in a Tuesday filing that it cannot search a Washington Post reporter’s seized devices. In the filing, U.S. Magistr...
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🇺🇸 Judge blocks Trump DOJ from reviewing Washington Post reporter's seized dataA federal magistrate judge on Tuesday rescinded the Trump administration's ability to examine data seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanso...
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🇺🇸 Judge blocks DOJ from searching Washington Post reporter's phone and laptop
A federal magistrate judge has blocked the DOJ from searching through a Washington Post reporter's devices after they were seized by the FBI last mont...
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🇺🇸 Bill of Rights put to the test over Trump's immigration crackdown in MinnesotaIn and out of court, more than half of the amendments in the Bill of Rights are being fought over as a result of Trump’s immigration enforcement surge...
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🇬🇧 Court approves law requiring Louisiana schools to display Ten CommandmentsA US court has cleared the way for a law to take effect, which requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public classrooms in Louisiana....
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🇺🇸 Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring public schools display Ten Commandments
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms ...
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🇺🇸 Judge Blocks Texas Law Banning L.G.B.T.Q. Clubs in Some School DistrictsThe law was the first in the nation to explicitly ban L.G.B.T.Q. student clubs. The ruling applies only to the Houston, Katy and Plano school district...
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