Tag: First Amendment

Believe it or not, the most frightening part of Donald Trump's speech in Fort Worth on Friday wasn't the red meat he threw to...

"Last I heard, we lived in a democratic society; last I heard a United States senator has the right to disagree with the president,...

As we were engrossed in holiday celebrations, some of us missed that a couple of weeks ago a federal court upheld the constitutionality of Florida's Firearm...

For various reasons, many us have grown tired of the alleged war on Christmas and the "Keeping Christ in Christmas" campaign. Some of us...

The more I hear from Ben Carson, the more terrified I become of the harm he would cause as our President. I try to give...

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It's one thing when a religious right leader openly admits what we already know--that he and his compatriots would like nothing better than to...

An eighth-grader in Carlisle, Pennsylvania says that she went to see the school nurse two weeks ago--only to have the nurse turn her away...

On the April 1 edition of ?The Lead with Jake Tapper?, Jake had the pleasure of interviewing Republican Arkansas State Senator Bart Hester. With...

A Republican state representative in Texas has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for private citizens to film the actions of police...

Last week, Public Policy Polling took the pulse of the Republican primary field. It found that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker seems to be the...

More than a decade ago, Julie Pucci, the deputy administrator of a Michigan district court, was fired after reporting one of the judges for...

To too many Americans, Free Speech is largely reduced to a weak argument belted in a strong voice when all other excuses fail to...

In New Mexico, a Creative Writing teacher found herself in a difficult situation when one of her students was offended by another student's story....

  In Louisiana, a teen has missed almost every day of the new semester because his school says his dreadlocks are too long. The teen is...

Okay, maybe a better line would have been, ?please, dear soul, respect the sanctity of those grains for their later consumption.? But instead, Danielle...

The Louisiana State House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs?has passed legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of...

The Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, Hobby Lobby's owners argued, forced them to violate their religious beliefs. But while it was suing the government,...

The separation of church and state is a founding principle of American democracy. Has this separation disappeared in the American military? This doctrine was...

A Mississippi high school student's objection to a religious forum on school time has succeeded in its legal challenge of the Rankin County School...