First Amendment

RCFP urged prosecutors to drop charges against April Fonseca Ehrlich, who was arrested in 2020 while reporting on law enforcement.

We take a look at a long-running challenge to the National Security Agency’s so-called “Upstream” surveillance.

Can old laws that purport to prohibit political lies survive close contact with the First Amendment?

The border search question has split federal circuits.

The Tenth Circuit ruled that you have a First Amendment right to record police officers carrying out their public duties.

The department’s new policy restricting freelance journalists from accessing information is unconstitutional. It’s also bad policy.

New York is the latest state to attempt to control how social media platforms moderate content.

RCFP examines how lower courts have implemented the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in a case concerning location surveillance.

Alito drew criticism for raising the state's argument that platforms’ exercise of editorial discretion was in tension with Section 230.

If SCOTUS lets Texas’s content-moderation law stay in effect, the result will be a significant shift in internet law.