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(2025) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Whether a Texas law requiring age verification for websites publishing sexually explicit content, to prevent access by minors, viol...
Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch , a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the gl...
24-656 (2025) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Does the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to TikTok, violate t...
“I was embarrassed for them. I was embarrassed for my sex and how they were behaving today.” Megyn Kelly attended the Pete Hegseth hearings and was clearly unimpressed with questioning from the Democr...
Institute of American Indian Arts Search all Cases In spring 2024, the Institute of American Indian Arts disciplined student David McNicholas for alleged bullying because, as senior editor of the Youn...
Shutterstock.com As the 2025 legislative calendar begins, FIRE is preparing for lawmakers at both the state and federal levels to introduce a deluge of bills targeting artificial intelligence. The Fir...
Jay Yuan / Shutterstock.com Cornell got a jump on its New Year’s resolutions this winter, unveiling an updated version of its proposed Expressive Activity Policy just before the holiday season. On Dec...
Positions: Transportation, Energy, and CIA. Three other President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees have their hearings today. I will have them in this blog. I’ll update as needed. The Senate Energy and N...
Jenny Condon Photography Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 7, 2025 — The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression announced today it will defend veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Se...
Adam grew up in Colorado before moving to Los Angeles, where he attended Whittier College and graduated cum laude from Loyola Law School. In 2016, Adam joined FIRE’s Philadelphia office, working on th...
Conor Fitzpatrick comes to FIRE by way of Detroit, Michigan, where he was a principal at Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone. Conor has extensive litigation experience at the state and federal level. ...
Of course he did. What a shock. Attorney General Merrick Garland dropped Volume 1 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report regarding the investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s supposed action...
It is hard to imagine a legal claim that violates basic First Amendment principles more thoroughly than does President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and The ...
Search all Cases The First Amendment protects speech about political affairs, even when officials — whether it’s your local mayor or the President of the United States — claim it’s false. That’s been ...
“Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy...
Sen. Britt: “We’re prepared to give ICE the resources it needs to properly enforce federal law and protect American families, both through the appropriations and reconciliation processes.” According t...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, as well as a pair of cases seeking to hold oil and gas companies responsible for damage caused by clima...
In his view, it will be the aftermath when people want to quickly rebuild and come face to face with California’s progressive bureaucracy that will red-pill thousands of Democrats. Adam Carolla is bro...
“Any reason you’re funneling donations through a left-wing company that takes 4% of the donation for its services rather than right to the charities?” As the Los Angeles wildfires continue to rage , a...
Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump is over Special counsel Jack Smith has concluded his work on two criminal investigations involving President-elect Donald Trump and stepped down from the Justice De...