The early correspondence of James Madison – who went on to become the fourth U.S president and played a key role in the drafting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights – wrestles with the tensions of ...

A group of noncitizen academics is challenging the Trump administration over immigration policies that allegedly violate their First Amendment rights.

Republicans push to alter Senate filibuster rules to pass Trump's SAVE Act requiring citizenship proof for voting, despite ...

Opinion: Each of the five protections of the First Amendment — the press, speech, assembly, petition and religion — is being ...

Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.

Bereaved parents have urged lawmakers to back an immediate ban on under-16s using social media as MPs prepare to vote on ...

For decades, a growing narrative in American politics has insisted that the United States is fundamentally a secular ...

State senators have given preliminary approval to what proponents are calling the first-ever guardrails on the use of ...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) appealed to the First Amendment to block the "censure" levied against him by Secretary of Defense ...

Second Amendment advocate Amy Swearer says Minnesota Democrats limited her testimony on gun control bills, focusing on ...

Florida's proposed union bill, SB 1296, faces bipartisan opposition from public workers who say it guts their First Amendment ...