LATEST  ACTIONS

12/23/21: PT1st Brief to SCOTUS in Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate: Limits on Candidates' Loans Are Limits on Political Speech
11/23/21: PROTECT THE FIRST FOUNDATION FILES BRIEF IN BOSTON FLAGPOLE CASE: “THE COURTS HAVE TURNED THE FIRST AMENDMENT ON ITS HEAD”
9/30/21: Protect the First Foundation Tells Supreme Court that Austin Sign Regulation Offensive to 1st Amendment

​The language is unequivocal.

The range of activities protected by the First Amendment is broad. Its placement as the first of ten amendments to the Constitution is a clear sign of how central to the American way of life the Founders viewed our freedom to worship, speak, report, protest and petition the government.

We live in a time, however, when even the unequivocal can be equivocated … narrowed … abridged … a circle of freedom shrinking to a pinpoint. Provocative speakers are banned from campuses or physically harassed into silence. Members of Congress propose misguided attempts to regulate online speech. And people who contribute to controversial causes – left and right, political and religious – are targeted for shaming, punishment, defunding and firing.

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