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What is the First Amendment in the US, and do immigrants have its protection?
The First Amendment in the US protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition, extending these rights to immigrants and visa holders. However, these protections are not absolute, ...
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My New Draft: “Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy”
I have posted this draft for an upcoming conference on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The collapse of campaign finance ...
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Reserved Powers of the States
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution ... Bill of Rights implied the existence of such powers. The First Amendment, for instance, states that “Congress shall make ...
Los Angeles Loyolan8hOpinion
Amid threats against democracy, the First Amendment must be exercised now more than ever
The U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press and speech, but the administration of President ...
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First Amendment › Private Right of Action
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, abridging the ...
Opinion
Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card?
Starting this week, I once again have the privilege of teaching law students about the First Amendment, a subject in which Americans rightly take great pride. But this term, the job will feel very ...
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As Trump says "there are methods" for serving a third term, here's what to know about the 12th and 22nd Amendments
President Trump has periodically floated the idea of serving a third term in office since his first reelection ... line of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution states: "No person shall be ...
The Trump administration must be stopped in its efforts to revoke visas based on speech | Opinion
The only way for your speech to be protected tomorrow is to safeguard the speech you do not like today. | Opinion ...
Why a presidential term limit got written into the Constitution – the story of the 22nd Amendment
Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is ...
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First Amendment rights for non-citizens? An expert weighs in
BUT ACCORDING TO EXPERTS ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT ... MESA ÖZTÜRK. THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS APPLY TO ANY PERSON PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES. A NONCITIZEN CANNOT BE ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram18d
Does the First Amendment apply to the students in Texas who had their visas revoked?
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states ... applies to anyone within the United States’ borders. “Once an alien enters the country, the legal circumstance changes, for the ...
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Equality and The Fourteenth Amendment: A New Constitution
Of the Civil War Amendments ... to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the first time ...