First Amendment Protection
This website and all content herein are protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Any attempt to restrict, censor, or otherwise limit the publication of content here — through restraining orders, gag orders, or similar legal instruments — constitutes a violation of fundamental constitutional rights and will be challenged to the fullest extent of the law.
Prior restraints are the most serious and least tolerable infringements on First Amendment rights.
— Chief Justice Warren Burger, Nebraska Press Ass'n v. Stuart, 427 U.S. 539 (1976)
"[T]he fact that the public officers named... may be deemed to be impeccable cannot affect the conclusion that the statute imposes an unconstitutional restraint upon publication."
— Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
Prior restraint on publication is presumptively unconstitutional.See New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).