first amendment

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Leon wrote that while service members have more limited free speech protections than civilians under the US Constitution's first amendment, no court has ever extended those limits to retired service members.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

“Jim has had a long, distinguished nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the first amendment and for our journalistic freedoms,” the network said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

One X post that shared the fabricated image states: “A law that breaks the first amendment? Orwellian.”

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

You talked a bit about your first amendment, which would double the size of the House.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2024

The first amendment which the House has made, and the most important one, will be found to commence in the eighth line of the first section.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio