A Key Precedent in Conversion Therapy Case Overturned Limits on Speech

The ruling, usually referred to as NIFLA, arose from a First Amendment challenge to California law regulating “crisis pregnancy centers.”

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What Is Strict Scrutiny? Here’s Why It Matters in Colorado Supreme Court Case.

It is the most demanding form of judicial review. If it applies, Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy is probably doomed.

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Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Challenge to Ban on Conversion Therapy

The court’s ruling in the Colorado case will have implications for more than 20 other states with similar laws.

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Can Conversion Therapy Be Banned? Supreme Court Will Decide on Colorado Law.

Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18.

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When Attacks on Free Speech Come From Left and Right

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens pointing out examples.

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The Problem Lurking Beneath the Church-and-State Debates in Texas

What exactly is religion, anyway?

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Jane Fonda Revives Her Father’s McCarthy-Era Free Speech Group

The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s.

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With Comey Indictment, Trump Sets Retribution Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies

President Trump’s retribution campaign risks ushering in a cycle of retaliation in which each new administration takes aim at the last one.

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In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line

The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.

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What to Know About ‘Hate Speech’ and the First Amendment

There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.

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