First Amendment

Dozens of worshippers protested in San Diego Sunday against Gov. Newsom’s coronavirus orders prohibiting indoor worship, including gatherings in people’s homes.

Riots have continued in Portland, Oregon, for several nights despite the withdrawal of federal law enforcement officials, as left-wing activists from Black Lives Matter and Antifa have attacked local police and battled them in the city streets.

Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli told the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution on Tuesday violent that rioters in Portland were disguising themselves as members of the press.

A pro-life leader related how police arrested him and a student leader in front of a Washington, DC, Planned Parenthood.

Police arrested two pro-life students who were chalking the phrase “Black Preborn Lives Matter” in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Washington, DC, Saturday morning.

Breitbart News provides a “much truer understanding of the world” than the New York Times, noted Dennis Prager.

Google’s suppression of Breitbart News content on its search engine is part of a broader strategy to “steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden and the radical left,” said Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak, author of Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism?, in a Tuesday interview with Mark Levin on the latter’s eponymous radio show.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a blistering one-paragraph dissent to the 5-4 majority upholding Nevada’s restrictions on church services Friday, noting that the Constitution did not put “Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.”

SCOTUS on Thursday agreed to review a case surrounding the constitutional right of free speech for students on U.S. college campuses.

Conservative figures Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, and Allen West joined a video celebrating the Founders, veterans, and police officers. 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Constitution’s religious liberty protections shield church schools from state and federal anti-discrimination claims filed by teachers.

The Little Sisters of the Poor won another victory Wednesday in their years-long battle to assert their First Amendment right to religious freedom against the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare.

The State of California has banned singing in any indoor religious services, even with masks on, under new guidelines  issued by the Department of Public Health to control the spread of the coronavirus.

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that foreign entities operating in the U.S. do not have First Amendment protections.

U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe handed down a preliminary injunction on Friday against New York officials for violating the First Amendment by shutting down religious services while encouraging Black Lives Matter protests.

“Woke corporate America” is “our number one enemy,” declared Ann Coulter, author of Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, offering her remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Dylan Gwinn.

Political censorship from the world’s largest technology companies places elections at risk through manipulation of information, warned Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) described the world’s largest technology companies — naming Google, Facebook, and Twitter — as “monopolies,” adding that she and her colleagues are considering the use of antitrust laws and reevaluation of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to address their shared political censorship and shaping of information access.

“Silence is violence” is a totalitarian slogan demanding compliance and reminiscent of political coercion within the former Soviet Union, said William Jacobson, professor of law at Cornell University and founder of Legal Insurrection.

During an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) responded to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) accusation that she is treating protests differently from religious services by stating that D.C. is following a phased reopening,

The White House has informed former national security adviser John Bolton that his memoir still contains classified material.

The group of far-left protesters who have set up an “autonomous zone” in Seattle include Antifa activists, some of whom are armed.

During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accused some governments of “acting like the coronavirus discriminates based on the content of people’s speech.” And said that it’s “now impossible to avoid the

Los Angeles authorities will not pursue criminal charges or fines against the hundreds of “peaceful protesters” who were arrested and detained for breaking curfew last week, after Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the city.

A federal judge in Denver, Colorado, issued an order late Friday night limiting the use of non-lethal projectiles and tear gas at protests, saying that the protesters’ First Amendment rights were more important than protecting property.

The New York Times faced a public backlash from its own newsroom on Wednesday after the paper published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) calling for the military to be used to quell nationwide rioting if necessary.

Trump reminded the nation who we are: people of the Book, or many books, bound by the words of a covenant, and grounded in moral precepts.

Trump’s rhetoric is combative and over-the-top. Yet his actions, as usual, not only obey the First Amendment, but also reinforce it. Biden would do the opposite.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) lifted the restrictions he placed on houses of worship in his state Thursday after two churches filed an emergency injunction pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel, network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said he will “defend to the death” Twitter’s right to fact check President Donald Trump.