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The Supreme Court's ruling on the First Amendment protection for adults seeking online sexual content.
The debate over how prosecutors and defense teams treat Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech splits into two principal legal arguments: that the speech can be evidence of criminal wrongdoing—includin...
federal law criminalizes possession, receipt and distribution of (CSAM) and was amended in the 2000s to reach “knowingly access[ing] with intent to view” material online, but courts distinguish betwee...
Federal appeals courts have not produced a uniform, definitive rule that streaming child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without saving a file always constitutes “possession”; lower courts and commentato...
’s recent decisions—most prominently v. Paxton—have carved out a narrower protection for adults seeking by allowing states to require for material deemed “harmful to minors,” while signaling limits on...
Prosecutions or civil claims tied to use of typically turn on three legal fault lines: whether the speech is constitutionally protected, whether it qualifies as criminal “fighting words” or a hate-mot...
Many of the high-profile claims by blaming the or have been rejected by courts and fact-checkers, and Trump both sues and is sued in federal court; however, whether an allegedly false public statement...
Federal and lower courts are starting to draw a sharp line between AI- or computer-generated sexual images that do not involve real children and material that is based on or depicts actual minors, wit...
Courts apply the Brandenburg test by asking whether speech was “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and was “likely to incite or produce such action,” a standard articulated in ...
Yes — retired officers have sometimes prevailed in federal litigation challenging retirement‑grade reductions, usually not by securing an across‑the‑board rule against the practice but by persuading c...
A narrow reading of federal law shows that mere factual contribution or truthful speech is generally not itself a federal domestic-terrorism crime, but providing information or resources that material...
Federal law already reaches “accessing with intent to view” certain child sexual material transmitted via interstate commerce, and several states have statutes broader than mere possession that can cr...