{"id":20843,"date":"2025-12-20T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:49:09","slug":"yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20843","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the First Amendment Applies to Non-Citizens Present in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The First Amendment says that &#8220;Congress shall make no law\u2026abridging the freedom of speech.&#8221; &#8230;in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=10722098108038406003&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bridges v. Wilson<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(1945), the Supreme Court unambiguously stated that &#8220;freedom of speech and of press is accorded aliens residing in this country.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/18\/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/18\/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The First Amendment says that &#8220;Congress shall make no law\u2026abridging the freedom of speech.&#8221; &#8230;in Bridges v. Wilson (1945), the Supreme Court unambiguously stated that &#8220;freedom of speech and of press is accorded aliens residing in this country.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/18\/yes-the-first-amendment-applies-to-non-citizens-present-in-the-united-states\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,1736,178,875,848,493,1213,1584,528,619],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-first-amendment","tag-foreign","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-immigrants","tag-judiciary","tag-speech","tag-supreme-court","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}