first amendment

State Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, R-, right, and other senators bow their heads during the prayer before the Senate floor session in Nashville, Tenn., April 16, 2015. (AP/Erik Schelzig)
The entire Sixth Circuit heard debate Wednesday over the constitutionality of a Michigan county’s practice of opening board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer, after the court vacated a three-judge panel’s ruling against the prayer and agreed to decide the case en banc.

Homestead Police Department (HPD), in South Florida, has myriad problems respecting the First Amendment. I went to HPD this week to serve some officers in a civil rights suit, the story was covered earlier. While entering I discovered that HPD still has not learned that photography is not a crime.

President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. Twitter users say Trump is violating the First Amendment by blocking people from his feed after they posted scornful comments. (AP/J. David Ake)
As President Donald Trump faces criticism for blocking users on his Twitter account, people across the country say they, too, have been cut off by elected officials at all levels of government after voicing dissent on social media.

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump called “alleged leaks” from government agencies related to the attack in Manchester “deeply troubling.” He also said the Justice Department should find the “culprits” and prosecute them to the “fullest extent of the law.”

While Turkish President Erdogan’s recent visit to the United States resulted in a less than exciting press conference with Donald Trump, the action on the streets of Washington was anything but boring.
READ MORE: Presidents Erdogan and Trump hold an uncomfortable looking press conference

(COMMONDREAMS) A reporter said he was arrested Tuesday in Charleston, West Virginia for asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price a question about the GOP healthcare bill that passed the U.S. House last week.

Code Pink member Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, pictured here confronting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the Iraq war, has been convicted of being disruptive at US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing. (AP/Charles Dharapak)
A Washington jury has convicted three people of being disruptive at US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing.
One of them, Desiree Ali-Fairooz, 61, was convicted on Wednesday of disruptive conduct and demonstrating on US Capitol grounds during the hearing of President Donald Trump’s nominee on January 10.

President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, center, attends a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 20, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
According to U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, the administration is still reviewing the country’s libel laws in a bid to prosecute journalists.

Terrible affronts, illegal subtitles and entering "The Circle" + this day in history w/Port Arthur massacre and our song of the day by Goldfrapp on your Morning Monarchy for April 28, 2017.

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