News outlets and press freedom advocates are cheering the latest court ruling against President Donald Trump’s press ban, ...

The president has tried to use the force of government to punish law firms, universities and private companies that displease him.

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The First Amendment protects the freedom of the press to act as a check on the government. Dan Kobil is a professor of Constitutional Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. As Donald ...

The First Amendment of the US Constitution is designed to protect people's basic freedoms, but what does it actually entail? The founding fathers wrote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore journalists’ access to the White House on Sept. 24, 2026. As he had in a similar case in 2018, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ...

(Editor’s note: This column is part of a Seattle Times Opinion series exploring the First Amendment and its five freedoms.) There’s a case to be made that David McCraw is the tip of the spear ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced the recipients of the 2026 Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal ...

NPR CEO Katherine Maher will receive Harper's Magazine First Amendment Award despite once calling the amendment a "challenge" ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In 2021, the legal scholars RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West published a study tracking the Supreme Court’s references to ...