"One was arrested for exercising his First Amendment right to protest, while another, a career prosecutor with over a decade of experience, was fired for no discernible reason other than he prosecuted January 6 rioters.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a July 23 press briefing that the president’s attendance will honor free speech and the importance of the First Amendment.

The majority in the 18-judge en banc panel did not directly address the First Amendment issue, but instead ruled that the suit was not “ripe,” or ready to be litigated yet.

Argument concerning the scope of the First Amendment will serve only to mislead or confuse the jury concerning what issues they are to decide."

They also argued that the OMB's directive violated the First Amendment based on grant recipients' rights to free expression and association, particularly SAGE, as it is an LGBT organization.

The White House Correspondents’ Association also condemned the move, calling it a violation of the First Amendment and Trump's own executive order on free speech.

But by providing only vague guidance as to which performances it prohibits, the Act wields a shotgun when the First Amendment allows a scalpel at most," Rosenbaum wrote in an 81-page majority opinion, joined by Judge Nancy Abudu.

The settlement upholds that designating speech as “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “malinformation” does not override First Amendment protections.

Meta has defended itself by saying that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protect the company from liability.

In Georgia, President Trump's attorney argues that the indictment should be dismissed because the allegations violate the First Amendment. But the judge seems skeptical.

Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged that TikTok Inc. has First Amendment rights because it is a U.S. company, but questioned whether those rights were affected by the law. U.S.

"Whatever it means to 'recruit' a person to receive a lawful abortion, however, such recruitment would inherently involve First Amendment-protected speech, meaning that the recruitment provision is subject to the ordinary restrictions that the First Amendment

resolution of its First Amendment claim to interests."

Paxton (2025) that age-verification mandates only burden the First Amendment incidentally because they regulate access to content but don’t target or suppress the content of the speech.

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which brought the suit with PETA, celebrated the decision.

While teachers hold First Amendment rights, the U.S.

Richards filed a lawsuit against Perttu claiming that his constitutional rights, including his First Amendment-based right to file grievances, were violated.

While the justices unanimously agreed that the Lanham Act didn't violate the First Amendment, they fractured along multiple lines in reaching that conclusion.

In her announcement, Leavitt said the change is a demonstration of respect for the First Amendment and a way to adapt to the modern media landscape, which includes podcasters and bloggers.

He had brought a First Amendment as-applied challenge, arguing that everything he said listed in the indictment was protected by the First Amendment.

“If you really want to heal this country ... you’re going to have to do it by talking to each other,” she said, adding that open dialogue is central to the First Amendment and to the country’s civic health.

They had argued that the administration violated the First Amendment and exceeded his authority under the Constitution's separation of powers clause.

Supreme Court has been fairly consistent: The First Amendment is real and must be enforced.

As Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE, warns, “Free speech culture is more important than the First Amendment. ...

“When I look at the people who are out there doing the violence, that's not the people that we see during the day, who are legitimately out there exercising their First Amendment rights,” he said.

A federal judge later reversed the funding freeze, ruling that the government violated the First Amendment through its efforts to combat anti-Semitism. The Justice Department appealed the decision in December 2025.

Justice Elena Kagan said TikTok Inc. has First Amendment rights because it is a U.S. company, but she questioned whether the law affects those rights.

“This is a clear continuation of the administration’s retaliation against Mahmoud for exercising his First Amendment rights.”

Judges Say CCP Could Violate Users’ First Amendment Rights The judges also ruled that potential content manipulation by the Chinese regime could infringe on Americans’ First Amendment rights.

The brief also contends that the First Amendment does not give students the right to force schools to include certain materials in the curriculum, highlighting the potential conflict with the establishment clause of that amendment.