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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...
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...
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...
“intentionally puts students in harm’s way” The objection being made here is the same old, stupid, claim that a conservative’s mere presence makes some students feel unsafe. From the Daily Cardinal : ...
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...
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...
FIRE marks our 25th anniversary this year, a milestone accomplishment for an organization that has grown from a scrappy group focused on campus rights to a nationally recognized advocate of free speec...
We have to stop this system where, for political reasons, we are all at risk. Here is my ‘hot take’ on the Daniel Penny case, which ended this morning with a Not Guilty Verdict on the lesser charge of...
Woodrow Wilson or Franklin D. Roosevelt: which president was worse for free speech? In August, FIRE posted a viral X thread , arguing that Woodrow Wilson may be America's worst-ever president for free...
“Protests extremely audible from the courtroom this morning for the Daniel Penny Trial. Mind that we’re on the thirteenth floor.” The Daniel Perry jury deliberations continue today. But Black Lives Ma...
The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take up several hot-button issues, including a challenge by parents to a school district’s plan to provide support for transgender and non-binary studen...
Trump also spoke about his economic and foreign policy agendas, not backing down from using tariffs as a negotiating tool. President-elect Donald Trump sat down with NBC’s Kristen Welker and expanded ...
Brent Efron even admits he could end up with a cushy job at one of the non-profits the EPA lavished billions to fund in grants. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that back in August, I reported th...
“The charges stem from an alleged kickback scheme she orchestrated to obtain several thousand dollars in taxpayer money in exchange for bribes paid” Just a day after the entire Boston City Council vot...
The illness is of unknown origin and has already claimed the lives of 143 people (the majority of who were in their teens). The last time we check on the status of epidemics in the Democratic Republic...
“alleges college administrators began investigating her after a classmate reported a Snapchat post” The school looks ridiculous here. The student’s posts had nothing to do with anything at the school....
“She says that NOT cutting a gender-confused childs genitals off is the same as banning interracial marriages.” Americans were amazed during then-Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate c...
Rowe deflects hard-hitting questions from Fallon over security lapses, sparking House hearing chaos. During a House hearing on Thursday, tensions erupted between Acting Secret Service Director Ronald ...
“The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.” Though it wasn’t entirely unexpected, Joe B...
“three to four years of people like us and others, many others, hammering on [DEI] has changed the culture when it comes to DEI. And so now political change I think is possible because the culture has...