FIRE submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the label of “true threats,” which are outside the First Amendment’s protection, should only apply when there is evidence of the speaker’s specific intent to threaten.
FIRE filed an amicus brief in the case of United States v. Hansen in support of a challenge to an overbroad federal law that puts the right to advocate for civil disobedience squarely in the government’s crosshairs.
FIRE files an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and reverse the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ ruling that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to a Texas law criminalizing certain forms of online speech.
FIRE is suing a county and its parks director for violating two political activists’ constitutional right to collect signatures to run for public office.