The hearing wasn’t halfway through when the chairman walked away.Inside the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room earlier ...

The Test Act of 1672 required individuals to pledge allegiance to the Church of England before enjoying liberties. Those who refused were excluded from public life, barred from universities and ...

But if this makes some censorship permissible, what limits should the court place on the censor’s power? The court has long protected books and newspapers from “prior restraint” —from any ...

The term "censorship" comes from The Latin, censere "to give as one's opinion, to assess." The Roman censors were magistrates who took the census count and served as assessors and inspectors of ...

“I’ve stopped all government censorship and I’ve brought back free speech in America,” he declared from the dais. Then, mere moments later, to thunderous applause from the Republican ...

The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway addressed a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on the Censorship Industrial Complex. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: For freedom of speech to mean anything beyond the ...

Otherwise known as censors, these men regularly delete what they consider to be the most offensive cracks from the Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers ...

Ninety-five years ago Monday – March 31, 1930 – the Motion Picture Production Code, a form of industry self-censorship also known as the Hays Code, was formed, but not enforced until 1934.