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We really need a workable definition of free speech. Free speech is any speech that expresses a point of view. If you are communicating a point of view, an opinion, a belief, through speech, then that is free speech.

Colorado therapist Kaylee Chiles argues that the state's conversion therapy ban limits her ability to counsel patients who wish to align their identity with their biological sex, claiming it violates free speech rights.

Attorney Kristen Wagoner is optimistic that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of her client, arguing that the government should not censor conversations between therapists and patients.

Freedom of speech has never been threatened the way it is right now. And he straight up said, we just got rid of it.

The Solicitor General of Colorado argued that state power is at its apex when regulating to ensure safety in healthcare professions, asserting that conversion therapy is not speech but conduct, and that it causes real harm.

The argument in the conversion therapy case hinges on whether the therapy is considered speech or medical care, with implications for First Amendment protections.

So-called conversion therapy clearly is the expression of a point of view. When a client sits down and says, I think I'm a woman, and you as the counselor say, no, you're a man, that is the expression of your point of view.

The death of free association has significantly damaged American society. Before the world wars, strong laws allowed communities to be built with distinct cultural identities, but modern discrimination laws have hindered this ability.

Trump said earlier: if you take away freedom of speech, the country dies. And today he's saying, we took freedom of speech away.

The whole point of freedom of speech is to say unpopular things, right? But even if you were to say, okay, look, I don't think it's freedom of speech to burn a flag, even if the Supreme Court disagrees, even if the Constitution disagrees.