First Amendment Essay Reclaiming a Progressive First Amendment to Save Journalism 18 Jun 201913 Jun 2019 Americans are generally proud of their First Amendment and cherish press freedoms.[1] At the same time, few reflect upon the policies, laws, and institutions that maintain such freedoms. Although media…
First Amendment Essay Free Expression and Fake News 20 May 2019 Does the "Marketplace of Ideas" Metaphor Still Apply? Social media networks have come under fire for their role in recent election controversies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated during Congressional…
First Amendment Essay Jehovah’s Witnesses and the First Amendment 23 Apr 201924 Apr 2019 How One Religious Group Shaped Free Speech Jurisprudence in the Early 20th Century “Seldom, if ever, in the past, has one individual or group been able to shape the course,…
First Amendment Essay The Internet’s Enduring Free Speech Legacy 11 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which found the communications decency provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to…
First Amendment Essay America First and America Only: German-American Newspapers, Self-Censorship, and Press Freedom in World War I 26 Mar 20193 Oct 2022 “Let us remember that we are Americans first and Americans only,” wrote George Sylvester Viereck, the pro-German publisher and provocateur, on April 11, 1917.[i] Only a few days earlier President…
First Amendment Essay Exploring Legal Challenges to Transparency in the First Amendment’s ‘Right-to-Know’ 12 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 The First Amendment provides U.S. citizens the right to receive information and ideas through the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Throughout history, this important legal principle appears…
First Amendment Essay Never Forget Herndon v. Lowry (1937) 12 Feb 2019 Despite the enormous odds against him, Angelo Herndon—a black communist who was “every white southerner’s nightmare”[1]—became a free speech hero. After five years of legal persecution and squalid incarceration, he…
First Amendment Essay First Amendment Essay series intro 15 Jan 201919 Dec 2019 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…
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