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The indictment of Don Lemon and other protesters has raised concerns about the impact on First Amendment rights.
in public is generally legal and protected by the under federal appellate precedent, but the right is not absolute: courts allow reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions, can complicate secret ...
Prosecutors must show that defendants used force, threats of force, physical obstruction, property damage, or intentional intimidation that injured or interfered with worshippers’ ability to exercise ...
Lawful protest funding — grants, stipends, reimbursements — is protected when it supports peaceful assembly, organizing, legal support, or advocacy within First Amendment bounds, whereas payments that...
Federal appeals courts have repeatedly held that filming and other expressive acts around law enforcement are core activity, and and civil-liberties groups say those precedents undercut claims that vi...
A recent federal district court dismissed a possession charge tied to wholly AI‑generated obscene images, finding Section 1466A unconstitutional as applied to private possession of virtual CSAM—invoki...
Federal FACE Act prosecutions have typically been proven by demonstrating intentional obstruction, threats or force aimed at preventing access to reproductive-health facilities or religious worship, u...
has been repeatedly found by multiple courts to have obstructed litigation and to have failed to comply with discovery and court orders, resulting in contempt findings, escalating fines, default judgm...
Federal and courts have produced mixed outcomes when protests involved : Minnesota judges have at times protected protesters’ rights against federal agents’ detention and use of crowd-control tactics ...
A federal judge in , , issued sweeping preliminary relief that directly constrained crowd‑control and force tactics deployed during and required new reporting and oversight measures for agents under ’...
The ’s subpoenas to officials are seeking records about coordination, communications and any refusal to aid federal immigration agents, and prosecutors appear to be scrutinizing public remarks from an...
Courts and scholars defending deepfake and AI-generated sexual content against statutory bans have mainly invoked core First Amendment doctrines: that synthetic expression is speech, content-based res...
and her wife were at the scene of an operation because they were acting as community monitors and legal observers — people who watch, record, and sometimes attempt to alert neighbors to immigration en...
have repeatedly failed to force out of cities because ICE operates under federal authority that local protest actions cannot revoke, escalations invite stronger federal legal and enforcement responses...
Direct interference with ICE officers during enforcement actions is legally risky and generally unlawful: federal statutes and ICE guidance warn that obstructing, impeding, or physically assaulting ag...
says he was acting as a journalist when he live‑streamed and followed an anti‑ group into in on Jan. 18; federal prosecutors say his conduct went beyond reporting and helped a coordinated takeover tha...
, introduced by and referred to Judiciary Committee, is an initiating article that alleges seven distinct grounds for impeaching and frames those grounds as “high crimes and misdemeanors” warranting r...
State have sometimes been wielded against bystanders who record police, but courts and commentators describe a nuanced, fact-driven landscape: federal and many state courts protect a bystander’s right...
around the country have recently curtailed multiple and practices related to protests and the recording of agents, issuing injunctions and critical rulings that restrict arrests, use of force against ...
to restore ’s full access to presidential events on in early April 2025, but the White House’s compliance and the practical access AP has received remained contested in the weeks that followed . The A...
has pursued religious‑freedom policy through a mix of executive orders, task forces and administrative guidance intended to broaden protections for religious expression, especially for conservative Ch...