#First-Amendment
Events indexed under #First-Amendment — 88 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | Supreme Court Declines Citizen Journalist Case, Sotomayor Dissents on First Amendment Arrest Supreme Court · Justice Sonia Sotomayor · Priscilla Villarreal · City of Laredo | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Press Policy Requiring Pledge Not to Gather Unauthorized Information Judge Paul L. Friedman · New York Times · Julian E. Barnes · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | Jury Convicts 8 of 9 Prairieland Defendants on Terrorism Charges; Acquits All But Song on Attempted Murder Pam Bondi · Judge Mark Pittman · Department of Justice · Benjamin Song · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | Anthropic Files Lawsuit Against Pentagon Over Unprecedented National Security Designation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | MRFF Documents Over 200 Complaints of Military Commanders Framing Iran War as Biblical Armageddon Pete Hegseth · Mikey Weinstein · Military Religious Freedom Foundation · CAIR · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-25 | Hegseth Appeals Ruling Protecting Sen. Kelly Military Rank, Calls Video "Sedition" Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · Richard Leon · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-23 | Prairieland Federal Trial Begins in Fort Worth After Mistrial Over Defense Attorney T-Shirt Judge Mark Pittman · Department of Justice · Cameron Arnold (Autumn Hill) · Zachary Evetts · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | Federal Judge Blocks DOJ from Searching Washington Post Reporter's Seized Devices, Cites Cannot Trust Government William B. Porter · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Hannah Natanson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | Federal Court Permanently Blocks Trump Administration's DEI Ban in Schools Nationwide Judge Landya McCafferty · U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire · American Civil Liberties Union · ACLU of New Hampshire · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-17 | DOJ Faces Legal Complaint After FBI Raided Washington Post Reporter's Home Without Disclosing Press Protections Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Hannah Natanson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | ACLU Files Amended Tincher v. Noem Complaint with 80+ Declarations of ICE First Amendment Retaliation American Civil Liberties Union · NewsGuild-CWA · Status Coup News · Kristi Noem · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Church Protest Coverage Don Lemon · Georgia Fort · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Journalist Don Lemon Arrested in Beverly Hills on Federal Grand Jury Indictment Don Lemon · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Serves Grand Jury Subpoenas to Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and AG Ellison Over Immigration Enforcement Tim Walz · Jacob Frey · Keith Ellison · Pam Bondi · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-18 | Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt St. Paul Church Service, Triggering Federal Crackdown on Journalists Cities Church · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · David Easterwood · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Border Patrol Agents Pepper Spray Students at Roosevelt High School During Dismissal U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Roosevelt High School · Minneapolis Public Schools | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | ICE Agent Kills Legal Observer Renee Nicole Good During Minneapolis Raid Jonathan Ross · Renee Nicole Good · Greg Bovino · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement U.S. Press Freedom Tracker · Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal law enforcement · ICE · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Emergency Request to Silence Immigration Judges, First Major Loss on Shadow Docket Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) · Department of Justice · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | NPR First Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump Reaches Pivotal Court Hearing on Retaliatory Funding Cuts NPR · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Directive Weaponizes Tax Enforcement Against Groups Labeled "Antifa" Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Warns DOJ Tracks Lawyers' Public Criticism of Prosecutions Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · White-collar defense lawyers · American Conference Institute · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | New York Times Sues Pentagon Over Restrictive Media Rules Requiring Publication Approval, Violating First Amendment The New York Times · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · NPR · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies · H-1B visa applicants · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-12-03 | University of Alabama Shutters Black and Female Student Magazines Under DEI Directives University of Alabama · Steven Hood · Pamela Bondi · Alice Magazine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | White House Launches 'Media Bias Portal' Denunciation System Targeting Journalists and News Outlets Donald Trump · White House Press Office · Andrew Feinberg · Eric Garcia · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-11-29 | White House Launches Official 'Media Offenders' Portal Targeting Press as Enemies Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · White House · The Washington Post · +23 | reported | |
| 2025-11-24 | Trump Signs Executive Order Initiating Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Process Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-20 | Trump Threatens Six Democratic Congress Members with Execution for Reminding Military of Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders Donald Trump · Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Chris DeLuzio · +9 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Seven Prairieland Defendants Plead Guilty to Material Support for Terrorism Seth Sikes · Nathan Baumann · Joy Gibson · Susan Kent · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-14 | Superseding Indictment Adds Charges Against Nine Prairieland Defendants Who Refused Plea Deals Department of Justice · Cameron Arnold (Autumn Hill) · Zachary Evetts · Benjamin Song · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-08 | Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration Violated First Amendment by Forcing Partisan Auto-Reply Messages on Federal Employees Christopher Cooper · U.S. Department of Education · American Federation of Government Employees | reported | |
| 2025-11-07 | ICE Bans Prayer Outside Broadview Detention Center Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Michael Pfleger · Thomas Mills · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-06 | Federal Judge Rules Border Patrol Commander Bovino Lied Under Oath, Issues Sweeping Use-of-Force Injunction Judge Sara Ellis · Gregory Bovino · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-04 | DOJ Escalates Investigation of 66-Year-Old Activist for Distributing Stephen Miller Protest Fliers U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · Barbara Wien · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-04 | Pope Leo XIV Calls for ICE to Allow Clergy Access to Detained Migrants Pope Leo XIV · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Cardinal Blase Cupich · Broadview ICE Processing Center · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest Kat Abughazaleh · Department of Justice · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Catherine Sharp · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-23 | Border Patrol Commander Bovino Throws Tear Gas at Chicago Protesters, Violating Court Order Gregory Bovino · Judge Sara Ellis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | DOJ Unseals First Federal Terrorism Charges Against Alleged Antifa Members in Prairieland Case Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | Pentagon Strips Press Credentials After Hegseth Imposes Rules Labeling Journalists as Security Risks Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · New York Times · Associated Press · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties Department of Justice · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Aakash Singh · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs NSPM-7 Labeling Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity, and 'Anti-Americanism' as Domestic Terrorism Indicators Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · JTTF · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-17 | FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely' Brendan Carr · Jimmy Kimmel · ABC · Disney · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Ninth Circuit Upholds California Social Media Protection Law for Minors U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · NetChoice · California · Rob Bonta | reported | |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal court restrains LAPD use of less-lethal force against journalists U.S. District Court · LAPD · Journalists | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Protest at Prairieland ICE Detention Center Ends in Shooting of Alvarado Police Officer Benjamin Song · Alvarado Police Department · Lt. Thomas Gross · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | CPJ: Law enforcement injure multiple journalists covering Los Angeles protests Committee to Protect Journalists · LAPD · Federal Law Enforcement · Journalists and reporters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | DC Circuit Rules 2-1 That Trump Can Bar AP from White House Events U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Judge Neomi Rao · Judge Gregory Katsas · Judge Cornelia Pillard · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | AG Bondi Rescinds Biden-Era Policy Protecting Journalists from DOJ Subpoenas and Search Warrants Pam Bondi · DOJ · Trump Administration · Merrick Garland | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | White House restructures press pool, removes permanent wire position White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) · Wire services | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration · Civil liberties groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Judge orders restoration of AP access to White House events U.S. District Court · Associated Press · The White House · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | White House Seizes Control of Press Pool, Removes Reuters and Bloomberg Alongside AP White House · Associated Press · Reuters · Bloomberg News · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Meta Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Division · Journalists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-26 | SCOTUS: Plaintiffs lack standing in social-media coercion case (Murthy v. Missouri) Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Amy Coney Barrett · Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Clarence Thomas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-12 | Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial Alex Jones · Sandy Hook victim families · Connecticut Superior Court | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-23 | Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-09 | Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring Paul LePage · Mark Eves · Good Will-Hinckley | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Shaun McCutcheon · Republican National Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations Iowa Legislature · Governor Terry Branstad · American Legislative Exchange Council · Agriculture Industry | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | FBI Surveils Occupy Wall Street as "Terrorist Threat" Before First Protest Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Occupy Wall Street · Joint Terrorism Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Anti-war activists · Grand jury | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending U.S. Supreme Court · Citizens United · Federal Election Commission · Justice Anthony Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Brennan · Warren Burger · Byron White · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals · Studio executives · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues Hollywood Ten · Dalton Trumbo · Ring Lardner Jr. · John Howard Lawson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · Eddie Mannix · +17 | confirmed | |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · Walt Disney · +9 | confirmed | |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | confirmed | |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process Edward Sanford · Benjamin Gitlow · U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · Jacob Abrams | confirmed | |
| 1918-05-16 | Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Postmaster General | confirmed | |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture Henry L. Pinckney · John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives · American Anti-Slavery Society · +1 | confirmed |