First Amendment
Sotomayor dissents as Supreme Court declines to hear Texas journalist’s wrongful-arrest appeal
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by Texas citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, leaving in place a divided ruling that she cannot sue local officials over her 2017 arrest for obtaining nonpublic information from police. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a lone dissent, calling the arrest an obvious First Amendment violation.
Luanne James, director of the Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee, has declared she will not comply with a board decision to move over 100 LGBTQ+ children's books to the adult section. In a letter to the board, she cited First Amendment protections and her ethical duties as a librarian. The board, led by chair Cody York, calls her stance insubordination amid ongoing tensions over book access.
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Federal agents arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three others on Thursday night in connection with a January 18 protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The demonstration targeted the church due to its ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and disrupted a worship service without causing physical harm. Critics decry the arrests as an assault on press freedoms, while officials describe the event as a coordinated attack on religious liberty.
A federal judge ruled Friday, November 7, 2025, that the Education Department violated employees’ First Amendment rights by inserting partisan blame into their out-of-office emails during the government shutdown. The court ordered the department to remove the partisan language from union members’ messages and permanently barred similar modifications.
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A U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday addressed the growing threat of ideologically motivated violence from radical leftists, prompted by the recent assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk. Daily Wire host Michael Knowles testified on how such incidents are often downplayed in official records and media coverage. Republican senators, led by Eric Schmitt, presented evidence to underscore the issue's urgency.