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American University: Law Students Investigated for Disagreeing with Pro-Life Classmate

American University Search all Cases On May 25, 2022, American University Washington College of Law’s Title IX office launched a formal investigation into eight law students who expressed pro-choice v...

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Enacted Campus Free Speech Statutes – Louisiana

In 2018, Louisiana enacted SB 364 , now La. Stat. Ann. § 17:3399.31 through § 17:3399.37 . In 2022, Louisiana enacted HB 185 . SB 364 is a bill that prohibits public colleges and universities from qua...

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FIRE Media Kit

FIRE defends and promotes the value of free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture. Founded in 1999 as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, for o...

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The Situation: The Full-Scale Situation Two Months In

How is it going? The Situation on Wednesday urged shows of political respect for groups with which we disagree—up to and including those that require outright lying. Today, let’s zoom way, way out and...

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HESS v. INDIANA

414 U.S. 105 (1973) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Syllabus U.S. Supreme Court Hess v. Indiana No. 73-5290. Decided November 19, 1973 Appellant, who was arres...

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WHITNEY v. CALIFORNIA

274 U.S. 357 (1927) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases (This audio from Free Speech Out Loud is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and all other podcast...

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Rockland Community College

Suffern, New York Search all Schools Rockland Community College has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form ...

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House Releases Final Report on Trump Assassination Attempts

On Dec. 10, the U.S. House of Representatives released its final report on the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump during his presidential campaign. The report follows the July...

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Brandeis University: University Derecognizes Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter

Brandeis University Search all Cases On November 6, 2023, despite its strong commitments to freedom of expression and its 2018 adoption of a version of the Chicago Statement—the gold standard for free...

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Rockland Community College: Suspension of Student for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Rockland Community College Search all Cases On October 12, 2023, Rockland Community College student Madeline Ward shouted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Jews for Palestine” ...

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Daniel Zahn

Daniel grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in English, philosophy, and communication arts and sciences. At Penn State, Daniel spe...

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Trump’s Attacks on Justice Department Independence, Then and Now

Ernest Hemingway famously described the process of bankruptcy as occurring “gradually, and then suddenly.” The same could be said of Donald Trump’s assault on the integrity of the Justice Department. ...

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Harvard Kennedy School: Dean Rescinds Fellowship Offer to Former Human Rights Watch Director Over Criticism of Israel

Harvard University Search all Cases Shortly after Kenneth Roth announced his plan to step down in August 2022 as executive director of Human Rights Watch after nearly thirty years, Harvard Kennedy Sch...

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The High-Water Mark of the Jan. 6 Prosecutions

On the fourth anniversary of the attack, 1,583 have been arrested and 1,270 convicted. Now how many will be pardoned? On the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, the Justice Department has ...

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What We Do and Don’t Know About the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search

The FBI’s surprise search of former President Trump’s residence has raised unanswered questions and engendered wide speculation. Here is a guide for the perplexed. This post was last updated on August...

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The Situation: One Judicial Opinion That Sums Up Everything

The Situation on Friday contemplated the deposition testimony of former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Today, let’s reach back to a nearly-month-old opinion by Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Cour...

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The Lawfare Podcast: The Legislative Dog That Hasn’t Barked

The period after Watergate and President Nixon's resignation saw an unprecedented barrage of congressional efforts at reforming the executive branch. The period after Donald Trump's departure from off...

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Emergency Powers Reform Within Grasp

There is clear bipartisan support for National Emergencies Act reform with an IEEPA exclusion. The National Emergencies Act (NEA) was one of the great failures of the 1970s reforms to the presidency. ...

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Why We Wrote ‘After Trump’

Donald Trump operated the presidency in ways that reveal its vulnerability to dangerous excesses of authority and dangerous weaknesses in accountability. “After Trump” explains what should be done to ...

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'Masters From Two Equal Branches of Government': Trump and Congress Play Hardball

President Trump proclaimed recently that his administration would be “fighting all the subpoenas.” And the headlines are filled with the proliferating disputes between the Democratic-controlled House ...

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