Law, Courts & Regulations
Colin joined FIRE after over 10 years of legal experience in government, private practice, and a public interest nonprofit. Colin spent much of his career as an assistant attorney in the U.S. Attorney...
Image created using Midjourney Holiday display featuring a Nativity scene and the horned demon-god Baphomet, as created by artificial intelligence. It’s the holiday season, when the lights are blinkin...
Rep. Greg Murphy's Campus Free Speech Roundtable on Capitol Hill on Dec. 11, 2024. What is the state of free speech on college campuses? More students now support shouting down speakers. Several insti...
Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Robert Bowers will remain on death row. President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences for 37 of 40 inmates on death row. On Saturday, Stacey wrote about ...
For a number of faculty members, the threat of censorship is so pervasive on campuses across America that not even the cloak of anonymity is enough to make them feel safe expressing their ideas. This ...
Search all Cases Concord allows unattended temporary displays on City Plaza. The Satanic Temple’s display was approved, but city officials have voiced their opposition to the approval and expressed th...
Shutterstock.com Today, FIRE filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in support of TikTok’s emergency application for an injunction pending review of a law that would force it to shut dow...
“The review of Ivy League practices by our CriticalRace.org project reflects substantial efforts by Ivy League schools to purport to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, while...
FIRE, supported by a wave of prominent organizations and scholars as “friends of the court,” has appealed a district court’s ruling that limited the rights of students to attend middle and high school...
This 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...
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 ...
Earlier this year, the court signaled it would side with the teacher Another school is paying the price for forcing teachers to participate in the “social transition” of students who express a gender ...
Shutterstock.com Clinical voyeurism, autoerotic asphyxiation (don’t Google it), and sexual offender registries are just a few of the topics Professor Mario Hernandez discusses in his introductory writ...
Shutterstock.com As congressional business draws to a close, legislators and activists are making a final push to get the Kids Online Safety Act over the finish line. The bill, which FIRE has opposed ...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12, 2024 – A biology professor fired for saying X and Y chromosomes determine sex. A journalism professor’s tenure offer rescinded because of her outspoken support of DEI. A lectur...
“…anyone who supports commuting their sentences will and should be painted as soft on crime in campaign ads.” Ten days before President Joe Biden announced he was granting clemency to 1,500 convicted ...
Search all Cases In November 2024, the Edison Township Council in New Jersey passed a decorum ordinance banning speakers from using “props” during public comments, as well as “patently offensive or ab...
My appearance on The Federalist Radio Hour: “[The federal government] needs to say to these schools that you cannot engage in discrimination, you cannot violate the law and keep your federal funding, ...
Trump alleges the sale could “constitute criminal fraud.” The Daily Wire reported that President-elect Donald filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court – Southern District of Texas to stop Pres...
Corruption runs deep in Oakland, so why should it be surprising that a progressive district attorney allegedly is behaving duplicitously? The disgraced former Alameda County district attorney Pamela P...