first amendment
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Even if the call had been intimidating, the judge wrote in his ruling, he was not convinced that such a call “would have chilled a person of ordinary firmness from exercising their First Amendment rights.”
From Los Angeles Times
Okay, I was also there to speak to the crowd about the First Amendment.
From Salon
The Post said it applauds “the court’s recognition of core First Amendment protections and its rejection of the government’s expansionist arguments for searching Hannah Natanson’s devices and work materials in their entirety.”
No one seriously proposes curbing that influence in the name of democratic equality, nor could such an effort be squared with the First Amendment.
From MarketWatch
They are trained in the tenets of the First Amendment, the right to protest and civil disobedience.
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