Discover how the First Amendment safeguards speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition freedoms in the U.S. Explore its significance and key Supreme Court cases.

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. In announcing the launch of “Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Biden,” the former ...

Are the First Amendment freedoms that have enabled social media killing the First Amendment on campus. Will they kill, someday soon, the First Amendment in our society? There is no doubt that student ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The editorial board of a major New Jersey newspaper started the year off with ...

President Joe Biden may assure the American people that his progressive gun control efforts would not “in any way” impinge on the Second Amendment, but other far-left pundits are more honest about ...

House Bill 3653, also known as the SAFE-T Act, started as a short, uncontroversial shell bill unanimously passed in the House and sent to the Senate. It resided there for almost two years, until, a ...

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For example, far from “suddenly siding” with the National Rifle Association in 2008 about the meaning of the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller merely affirmed the ...