Texas is now forcing app stores to verify a users’ age before they can access lawful information online. Today, CCIA asked the Supreme Court to block Texas’ App Store Accountability Act while the courts consider its constitutionality. Requiring Americans to show ID to download apps, from a weather app to a news app, is a sweeping restriction on speech, #privacy#, and access to information. The #FirstAmendment# protects the right to access lawful speech online. Read more:

The First Amendment does not disappear simply because someone takes offense. SLF is standing up for the First Amendment and supporting @defendinged and @xx_xyathletics challenges to Colorado laws that allow protected speech to be restricted based on subjective claims of offense. Free speech cannot depend on whether someone agrees with what is being said.

Honig: The beauty and power of the First Amendment is that it doesn’t much care who the outlet is. It doesn’t matter if the outlet is far left. It doesn’t matter if the outlet is MSNOW or MeidasTouch. It doesn’t matter if the outlet is far right…if it’s an independent journalist or an established international cable network. The First Amendment protects you

BREAKING: Enes Kanter Freedom files First Amendment lawsuit against Chicago Sky, after being ejected from a WNBA game while wearing a shirt defining a woman as an “adult human female.”

SPLC DRAGGED INTO O’KEEFE FIRST AMENDMENT BOMBSHELL Could James O’Keefe’s major court victory have implications for the controversy surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center? The panel puts that question directly to O’Keefe attorney Ben Barr — particularly when money, undercover access and contracts enter the equation. Barr: “Once money gets involved… it gets a little trickier.” 👀🔥 @JamesOKeefeIII @RCPolitics @BenjaminBarr1A

JAMES O’KEEFE WINS MASSIVE FIRST AMENDMENT VICTORY O’Keefe is celebrating a major victory in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that his attorney says strengthens protections for undercover and independent journalism. “This is a tremendous victory… for every journalist who takes on powerful people.” After a 10-YEAR legal battle, O’Keefe’s attorney says he “never backed down.” 🔥🇺🇸 @JamesOKeefeIII @RCPolitics @BenjaminBarr1A

Disney’s ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, calling the government agency’s recent investigation into the company a “retaliatory campaign” due to the nature of its programming, which has been critical of President Donald Trump. The broadcast network filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in a district court in Washington, D.C. More details: