The First Amendment is both crucial and insufficient because it does not address the state “establishment” beyond religion, despite the rise of ideological groups that share many of the ...

The First Amendment is a mere 45 words. But it's still giving lawmakers and judges fits 227 years after its adoption. The government can't establish religion, but federal, state and municipal ...

A Cross-Shape War Memorial Is The Next Big 1st Amendment Supreme Court ... The question is what the court's opinion will say about how to judge public support for religious symbols and programs in ...

But rightly read, the 1st Amendment forbids the government from embracing that symbol. That is how the court should have ruled. Follow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion and Facebook ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sent a simple — and disturbing — message in a complicated ruling about an 8-foot cross in California’s Mojave National Preserve. The message is that the ...

In the United States, freedom of expression, artistic and otherwise, is ultimately governed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ...

Justices seem inclined to uphold WWI memorial cross in Bladensburg, Maryland. The Supreme Court wrestled vigorously Wednesday with how to decide when religious symbols can be placed on public land ...

The First Amendment guarantees of free speech, press, religion, and assembly may be the constitutional provision most widely understood by Americans. Adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights ...

Religious freedom has been a thread woven through the history of the United States starting long before there even was a United States. Not all, of course, but many of the first European settlers ...

“These important changes will bring simplicity and clarity to our policies governing religious and spiritual symbols, helping ensure we are consistently complying with the First Amendment to the ...

In order for a court to find a First Amendment violation, the government needs to be the one erecting the religious symbol or hosting the event, ...