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Campaign speech needs First Amendment protection
Bradley Smith writes for National Review Online about the importance of protecting political speech. Here’s a thought experiment: What percentage of your fellow citizens would have...
Journal of Free Speech Law: "Permission to Speak Freely: An Introduction," by Sam Lebovic
Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing.
No, the founders did not ‘tell you so’
H.L. Mencken believed in free speech “up to the last limits of the endurable.” Apparently, that makes him a cuck nowadays.Mencken was a self-described “extreme libertarian” with li...
Party of free speech absolutists suspend man for using wrongspeak about Nigel Farage
Free speech champions Reform UK have suspended Tory defector Tim Montgomerie after he made the elementary mistake of assuming the party's passionate commitment to free speech inclu...
Free speech lets Hasan Piker indict his own radical movement
Hasan Piker should not be silenced. The radical leftist influencer has burst onto the political scene as a self-styled Marxist kingmaker and viewpoint enforcer.
Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners
The case is a decision by Judge Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.) Friday in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (see also… The post Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners ap...
Video Shows Fort Worth Cop Ticketing a Preacher for 'Offensive' Speech at Pride Event
“The First Amendment does not allow government officials to shut down speech simply on account of it being ‘offensive,’” says a legal expert at FIRE.
The Argument We Forgot How to Have
The First Amendment is 45 words long, and for most of American history nobody was entirely sure what they meant. The Supreme Court did not squarely apply the Free Speech Clause aga...
Ban on "Personal, Impertinent or Slanderous Remarks" in City Council Public Comments Is Unconstitutional
So the Fifth Circuit held a few weeks ago.
Free Speech Unmuted: The Process Is The Punishment: ABC v. FCC with Stuart Benjamin
ABC is challenging the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that the agency is using its licensing authority to punish the network… The post Free Speech Unmuted: The Process...
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules
Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-B...
Your free speech rights narrowed the day you were hired
The First Amendment protects police officers, but off-duty posts, political commentary and even a “like” can still carry career consequences
When do Judges Have Free Speech?
Recently, a letter from the America First Policy Institute garnered some local attention by suggesting that three justices of the Hawaii Supreme Court should be disciplined for bad...
America turned 250, but is free speech only free if you agree with the president?
Each American has the right to disagree with another’s political views, even if that does rankle Donald Trump, Wayne E. Williams of Camden, New Jersey writes in a letter to the edi...
Vanity plates protected under First Amendment
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Virginia vanity plates are private speech protected under the First Amendment, not government speech. The post Vanity plates protec...
Milton man accuses the town of violating his free speech rights
Suspending College Student for Saying Man Who Insulted Her "Needa Get Blasted" + Having Posted Shooting Range Video (Yea...
Some excerpts from today's long opinion by Judge Joseph Dawson, III (D.S.C.) in Lemoine v. Horry Georgetown Tech. Coll.: On… The post Suspending College Student for Saying Man Who...
Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech During the Civil War
An extremely interesting post (Mchangama, as many of you know, is a historian of free speech, among other things): [I]t's… The post Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on...
Free to Speak, Not to Listen: Freedom of Expression in the Age of AI Chatbots
Can you lose your free speech even when you are not prevented from saying anything? To answer this question, let us consider two ways in which governments could regulate AI chatbot...
The First Amendment
[Essay]I remember digging through my father’s WWII footlocker, where he had mementos from his time in the service. In it were copies of the VE and VJ Day editions of Stars and Stri...
Only in America: Amid the roast, Trump toasts free speech
A federal court victory for free speech in and about America
Petty and vindictive. Such was the ban on travel to the United States handed out by the State Department on December 23 last year to five Europeans, one of whom was Clare Melford,...
US Case Law Draws Distinctions on Public-School Teachers’ Free Speech
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