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Freedom of the press? Not according to DC appellate court

(The Center Square) – First Amendment rights for journalists aren’t guaranteed, according to a recent appellate court ruling, with which U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and multiple news organizations ...
Government Executive

Labor groups warn of ‘gaping hole’ in First Amendment if court OKs Trump’s anti-union orders

Attorneys for the nation’s largest federal employee union warned this week that the August decision to allow President Trump’s executive orders stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their ...
New York Sun

Judge Throws Out Lawsuit From a Trump Nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Strzok, Who Claims His Firing Violated His First Amendment Rights

A federal judge rejected claims by a former top FBI counterintelligence agent who had a key role in the “Russiagate” investigation and called President Trump a “loathsome human” in a private text ...

Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of some agency employees ...
WLRN

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on precedent protecting First Amendment

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. James B. Blasingame is professor of English at Arizona ...
Reason

Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations of Non-Citizen Students and Academics Violate the First Amendment

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here ...