The First Amendment protects the public’s right of access to criminal complaints filed in court against adult defendants. A law sealing such records is unconstitutional in large part because public access to the criminal complaint “reflects the importance of its role in the criminal trial process and the public’s interest in knowing its contents.” But in 2025, […]
Montana Democrats and their candidate for Montana’s first congressional district, Sam Forstag, would have you believe he’s cut from the same cloth as the average Montanan. However, what is true of Forstag’s carefully curated “blue-collar” campaign is equally true of the public Drag Queen Story Hour shows he’s spent his whole career defending: looks can be deceiving.
Tiny Zaps, a New York tattoo shop, says the law violates the First Amendment's guarantee of self-expression.
With every passing week we see more headlines confirming that the Montana Democrat Party (MDP) is in complete and utter disarray.
(The Center Square) - The Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute filed a brief in support of House Concurrent Resolution 2044, a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit diversity, equity and inclusion requirements in state government hiring and training.
Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The Arizona Supreme Court will let groups argue a recent state law that shines a light on outside spending in political races violates free speech concerns, though the court rejected other arguments.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision Tuesday, struck down 50-year old limits on political party spending for campaigns, a decision that could unleash swaths of funding into campaigns across the country.
(The Center Square) – A Pittsville mother has reached a settlement that includes legal fees and recognition of her free speech rights after she received a cease-and-desist letter and a visit from police to her home following a video she posted on social media stating that she was considering homeschooling her disabled daughter after she was pushed aside at a holiday school concert.
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is leading a 20-state coalition in support of students pursuing degrees that Virginia has deemed too religious to qualify for the state’s scholarship programs.
