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 protects every American, and no foreign government gets to override it. My HOMEFRONT Act bars American courts from enforcing foreign censorship orders and lets Americans who are targeted sue for damages.

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.

The main purpose of the First Amendment's freedom of the press is to preserve the press's ability to expose corruption in government. But Matt Goldstein and the N.Y. Times have a different take. They believe the press exists to enable and cover up government corruption. Instead of protecting the people from a corrupt government, they protect a corrupt government from the people! @MattGoldstein26 @nytimes

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