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Free speech advocates converge to support FIRE’s ‘Let's Go Brandon’ federal court appeal

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...

2024-12-17

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Australia blocks social media for teens while UK mulls blasphemy ban

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...

2024-12-17

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Trump v. Selzer: Donald Trump Sues Pollster J. Ann Selzer for ‘Consumer Fraud’ Over Iowa Poll

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 ...

2024-12-16

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CNN: Kamala Harris Told Team She’s ‘Not Going Quietly Into the Night’

“What she‘s been saying to people over the last couple of weeks, donors, other supporters that she‘s been talking with, is, ‘You haven‘t seen the last of me. I‘m not going quietly into the night.'” VP...

2024-12-16

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SUNY Cortland English professor back to teaching after 13-month suspension for classroom lecture

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...

2024-12-13

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Four big reasons you should oppose KOSA

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 ...

2024-12-12

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FIRE SURVEY: Only 20% of university faculty say a conservative would fit in well in their department

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 A journalism professor’s tenure offer rescinded because of her outspoken support of DEI.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...

2024-12-12

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Embattled Law Prof. Amy Wax to UPenn: Lift Sanctions or I’ll See You in Court

Wax’s lawyers gave the University until close of business on Thursday, December 19 to revoke its disciplinary actions against her Embattled law professor Amy Wax, recently sanctioned by UPenn for her ...

2024-12-16

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Edison Township, New Jersey: Town Council bans props, including the U.S. flag and Constitution, at council meetings

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...

2024-12-11

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FIRE statement on X’s support of misguided ‘Kids Online Safety Act’

Below the Sky / Shutterstock.com By coming out in support of the Kids Online Safety Act, X betrays its past commitments to opposing government censorship. Hundreds of millions of Americans express the...

2024-12-09

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Trump’s calls to investigate pollster put First Amendment at risk

Rubanitor / Shutterstock.com President-elect Donald Trump called for an investigation late last month after Des Moines Register pollster Ann Selzer predicted just days before the election that he woul...

2024-12-05

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Our National Science Foundation Has Given Over $2 Billion to DEI Projects

Bonus: A podcast with me talking Ace of Spades HQ’s JJ Sefton and CBD about the challenges that science in this nation faces. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the fede...

2024-12-16

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Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania Search all Schools Pennsylvania State University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least o...

2024-12-05

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FLAGGED FOR REMOVAL: New Jersey resident ejected from town council meeting for displaying American flag and U.S. Constitution

UPDATED (Dec. 13, 2024): VICTORY! After FIRE sent the Council a letter demanding they amend or revoke the ordinance, the Council on Dec. 12 unanimously voted to schedule a motion to repeal the ordinan...

2024-12-04

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Trump’s FBI director pick Kash Patel: A clear and present danger to freedom of the press — First Amendment News 449

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE. Retribution is in the air. . . . [Kash Patel’s] pled...

2024-12-03

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Liberals Katie Couric and Jessica Tarlov Agree Bussing Illegals to Blue Cities Was Effective Republican Strategy

“I thought that it was a stunt when they started busing migrants … to Martha’s Vineyard. It was the smartest thing they ever did” Jessica Tarlov of FOX News recently appeared on Katie Couric’s ‘Next Q...

2024-12-14

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Pelosi Hospitalized in Luxembourg After Sustaining an Injury

Pelosi traveled to the country with a delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in a Luxembourg hospital after sustaining an injury durin...

2024-12-13

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Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

“We’re going to seek to make URI a test case for the Trump administration” The Equal Protection Project (EPP) ( EqualProtect.org ) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation has challenged numerous discrimi...

2024-12-13

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National Campaign Launched to Combat ‘Faculty for Justice in Palestine’

“the enormous influence of anti-Zionist faculty on campus climate is often overlooked because much of it happens away from public view, in classrooms and conference halls, at faculty and academic sena...

2024-12-12

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Supreme Court to debut new public seating lottery for arguments

Members of the public who want to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court can now apply through an online lottery to obtain advance reservations for seats at those arguments. The Supreme Court anno...

2024-12-12