First Amendment Rights

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Also see the annotations

First Amendment Rights & The Judiciary

Advance Internet Edition; Cite As: 31 U. WEST L.A. L. REV. [ page] ( Summer 2000 )

How The Judiciary Stole The Right To Petition

By: John E. Wolfgram

Sunshine Week

The Judiciary & Open Records

First Amendment: Religion

An Historic Example Of Judicial Activism: The Cantwell Case

By: David W. New, Esq. -- (1st Amendment & Religion) -- 11/15/05

A Prayer Changed the U.S. Capitol

By: David W. New, Esq. -- (1st Amendment & Religion) -- 7/8/06

First Amendment Rights in the State Judicial Branches

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Elena Sassower was found guilty of "Disruption of Congress"
for respectfully asking a question after the meeting was being adjourned.

Ms. Sassower Goes to Washington or at this link
By: Dorothy Mataras, founder, Victims-of-Law

NEW JERSEY

'Gag Rules' Eliminated in NJ's Attorney Disciplinary System

Information on New Jersey’s Attorney Disciplinary System

OHIO

CUYAHOGA COUNTY

American Whistleblowers' League Presents a Chronicle of the Baumgartner Case

VERMONT

Citizen Scott Huminsky Prohibited from Entering Vermont Courts

Judiciary Retaliation & Vindication, Scott Huminski Story

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

--Justice Anthony Kennedy -- US jurist (1936 - ) --
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"if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein,"
--Justice Robert Jackson in West Virginia v. Barnette --

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