Category - Free Speech News

Should you get taxed for purchases you make online? Can your local bakery refuse service based on your sexual preference? Should the FBI be allowed to access your cellphone records? These and other vital questions promise to be answered by June 2018.

While most federal workers sit home on unpaid leave (or are forced to work without pay), find out whose salaries remain in effect.

The First Amendment ensures Freedom of Speech for all citizens, but not always. Especially not if you’re employed, on social media, on campus, or at a rally. Here are four instances where citing Freedom of Speech could still get you in trouble.

The Supreme Court agrees – social media has become the new town square, the center of civic life in the 21st century – arguing that digital reality is just as real as physical reality.

America’s two most recent predecessor Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, emerged from relative seclusion last week to give their take on the state of the Union, and all its current rifts.

Christian G. Appy, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, says The Vietnam War connects past to present by proving the United States military has more than once brought disaster to foreign lands engulfed in people’s war.

Catalonia independence voters have equated Spanish suppression tactics to those used by rogue governments like North Korea, China and Turkey; UN confirms efforts seem to violate fundamental human rights.

But Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution does give Congress absolute authority over immigration law, stating that Congress shall have the power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Successive waves of Congress have utilized this law to limit immigration on the basis of national origin since as early as the 1700s.

Violent clashes emerged in Portland, Oregon last Sunday when antifa activists confronted police officers and far-right demonstrators during the “Peaceful Portland Freedom March.”