Photo Credit: Courtesy of McKenzie Wark By Kaleigh Darty; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Imagine that an unarmed young man in your hometown was shot and killed by police in the course of an arrest. Word spreads throughout the town, and soon after the incident, a video surfaces online. In a matter of hours, the …
By Jasmine Plott; Staff Member (Vol. 16) “I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it! You can’t keep living this way. You just need to do it like you did last time and not think about it and just do it babe. You …
Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Federal Court News The Supreme Court will decide whether …
By Kayla Rowsey; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Ah, yes—playgrounds. Definitely the forum we all had in mind for presenting such a divisive Establishment Clause issue to the Supreme Court. Let’s figure out how we got here. Missouri has a clause in its state constitution, commonly known as a Blaine Amendment, which forbids the allocation of …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Jimmy Emerson, DVM By Adam Griffin; Staff Member (Vol. 16) North Carolina’s First Amendment Before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, and before the Supreme Court doctrine of incorporation was created to impose the protections of the First Amendment against the State Governments, most State Constitutions had sister provisions that protected …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Stephen Melkisethian By Sarah Rozek; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Charlottesville, a city in West Central Virginia, has a population of more than 200,000. It was not, however, the city’s size, its great selection of wineries, or its world-class university which made it into the headlines this year. Rather, it was the …
Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Pete Sheffield …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Max Pixel By Matt Hinson; Staff Member (Vol. 16) In August, 2016, Colin Kaepernick, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, sat down in protest during the playing of the national anthem before a preseason game. When asked why he sat down, Kaepernick responded, “I am not going to stand up to show …
By Tyra Pearson; Staff Member (Vol. 16) In light of the recent Supreme Court decision, many Americans are beginning to think that the idea of “separation of church and state” is in jeopardy. In Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, the Court ruled a Missouri program denying funding to religious groups as unconstitutional under the First …
By Alexandra Baruch Bachman; Staff Member (Vol. 16) The General Issue: First Amendment + College Campuses = News If you actively follow the news, or read the CNN updates that appear on your phone, you know that there has been a nationwide shift toward stifling free speech on college campuses. Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina …