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The legal protections afforded to journalists and news organizations under the First Amendment, particularly with regards to publishing truthful information.
for “allowing the spread of Satanism” was part of a holiday exhibit installed inside the under a permit issued by the state’s ; the governor’s office says he did not approve the display and did not re...
telling someone “” is not a neutral admonition; it is a threatening statement that can amount to unlawful intimidation or at minimum agency misconduct depending on the context, and it can implicate co...
Federal authorities point to a mix of existing criminal statutes—threats, stalking, obstruction/conspiracy, and laws that bar releasing protected personal information with intent to threaten or incite...
Legal observers and “ Watch” volunteers are organized community networks trained to document , alert neighbors, connect detainees to lawyers and provide post-event support; they operate through hotlin...
The legality of ’s recent tactics cannot be answered with a simple yes or no; federal authority gives ICE broad powers to detain and arrest suspected immigration violators, but those powers are constr...
The it opened an investigation into Signal group chats in that allegedly tracked federal immigration agents, with repeatedly stating the bureau "opened up that investigation" and that the chats are "s...
U.S. law does not categorically ban criticism of Israel as antisemitic, but federal agencies and some legislatures increasingly rely on the IHRA working definition—which lists examples that can classi...
ICE can lawfully give orders to — and in narrow circumstances detain or arrest — U.S. citizens or others who are actively obstructing or impeding immigration enforcement, but that authority is limited...
’s memoir and accompanying revelations accuse the Trump family of decades-long —alleging she supplied tax and estate documents to and describing alleged fraudulent valuations, transfers and cover-ups ...
Courts balance robust protections for protest speech against narrow government powers to regulate the “” of demonstrations; whether noise or following police crosses into harassment or obstruction dep...
The alleged military-law violations center on Senator Mark Kelly’s participation in a November video in which he and five other former service members and intelligence officers told active-duty person...
Bystanders on private property generally do not have special powers to stop from executing a valid , but they do have clear constitutional and statutory protections: ICE must normally obtain a judge-s...
The dominant legal standard for when political speech becomes criminal incitement is the Brandenburg test: speech is unprotected only if it is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless actio...
Courts and legislatures have split responsibility and produced a patchwork of outcomes: many jurisdictions treat drawn or computer-generated visual depictions of minors in sexual contexts as criminal ...
Federal prosecutors have long relied on a cluster of criminal statutes—most prominently 18 U.S.C. §§ 111, 1114, 115, 1501, and 1503, plus civil-rights and conspiracy provisions such as § 242 and § 372...
There are very few direct precedents for reducing a retired officer’s grade or pension as punishment for political speech after retirement; past uses of the retirement‑grade review process have typica...
was not removed in one sweeping national act but curtailed where courts, statutes, or school policies collided with constitutional rights and local choices; key legal decisions — notably v. Barnette —...
Over the past five years, campus battles over Turning Point USA (TPUSA) recognition have produced a mixed record: several student governments have rejected TPUSA bids while university administrations ...
State legislatures justify limiting local cooperation with ICE in schools and places of worship by invoking core constitutional protections—principally the Fourth Amendment’s guard against unreasonabl...
When allegations resurface from hacked or , journalists and fact‑checkers begin with provenance and potential harm, then seek independent corroboration while balancing legal and ethical constraints; t...