The three Democrat lawmakers tasked with responding to President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech to Congress have voted ...

The Supreme Court would not take up freedom of speech and the press until decades later, in 1821. My research and that of other scholars suggest that Adams was never an advocate of the Sedition Act.

In 1918, during World War I, Congress passed – and President Woodrow Wilson signed – a new Sedition Act that imposed harsh penalties for speech abusing the U.S. government, the flag ...