First Amendment

After Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a major elections bill Wednesday, legal battles immediately began about new restrictions on voter-registration groups.Organizations such as the League of Women Voters of Florida, the NAACP and Hispanic Federation filed three federal lawsuits arguing that the restrictions violate First Amendment rights and will harm efforts to sign up Black and Hispanic voters.

A group of about 50 people who had been attending a Christian conference in Fort Myers came to the FGCU campus to share their religious fervor but ran up against a decidedly uninterested audience of students.

The Florida First Amendment Foundation and media organizations are weighing their options following a dismissed lawsuit against the governor and Cabinet...

Arguing that the measures would violate First Amendment rights, an attorney for two plaintiffs urged the Florida Supreme Court to uphold a lower-court...

Newspapers across the United States, including more than a dozen in Florida, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s attacks on what he calls…

A Florida-based publisher of a magazine written by inmates lost a federal appeal of a freedom of speech case against the Florida Department of...

College students in Florida may soon be able to exercise free speech anywhere on a state campus.

A local chapter of the NAACP is warning officials about Ku Klux Klan recruitment efforts and how that could impact the Bay County area. It comes in the...

Florida will pay $1.1 million in legal fees to attorneys who challenged a controversial state law that sought to prevent doctors from asking patients...

A multitude of bills goes into effect Saturday, including one that is protecting the religious expression of public school students.