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VICTORY! Maine hospital backs down from defamation threat over teen’s criticism

Samson Cournane BANGOR, Maine, Nov. 7, 2024 — A Maine hospital conglomerate forfeited its ability to sue a teenage critic, after the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression jumped to his defen...

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University of Texas, Austin

Austin, Texas Search all Schools University of Texas, Austin has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous pol...

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Commitment to democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box

Shutterstock.com Here’s some good news this Election Day: Americans actually agree on a lot. The bad news? They’re afraid to say it. That’s according to a new survey by the nonpartisan think tank Popu...

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U. South Carolina Prof Calls GOP Party of the ‘Uneducated’ Who Hold America ‘Hostage’

“This is why there’s such a push to weaken education, ban books, and outlaw the teaching of Black history by the Republican Party” Ahh, the old ‘hostage’ line. We haven’t seen this since the red wave ...

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Columbia needs to stop doing politics and start doing higher education

Lev Radin / Shutterstock.com Students and faculty rally as pro-Palestinian supporters set up a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University on April 22, 2024 Last month, FIRE released a rep...

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University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico Search all Schools University of New Mexico has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambigu...

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Plymouth State University

Plymouth, New Hampshire Search all Schools Plymouth State University has been given the speech code rating Green. Green light institutions are those colleges and universities whose policies nominally ...

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Democrats Debate Trying To Throw Justice Sotomayor Overboard Before Trump Takes Office

Democrats fear Sotomayor will “Ruth Bader Ginsburg” them, and will die when Republicans control the Senate and presidency in 2025, allowing Trump to nominate her replacement. This is an obviously “rac...

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West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia Search all Schools West Virginia University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambi...

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York Search all Schools Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguo...

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SHOCKING: 4 in 5 Americans think ‘words can be violence’

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31, 2024 — In a disturbing new finding from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, 4 in 5 Americans agree to at least some degree with the idea that “words can be viol...

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California Voters Overwhelmingly Say ‘No’ to Soft-on-Crime Policies and Prosecutors

Early results show Proposition 36 easily passing, Soros-backed Alameda County DA Pamela Price losing, and serious SF DA Brooke Jenkins winning. I do not often have good news from the State of Californ...

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Five scary threats to free speech

Shutterstock.com As election season and Halloween creep closer, concerns about free speech are growing like shadows after sunset. But when it comes to free speech, we cannot let anyone scare us into s...

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The First Amendment protects your right to trick or treat

Photo created via Midjourney This Halloween as you take your kids trick-or-treating, you likely aren’t thinking about the First Amendment. But you should be. After all, going door-to-door to “solicit”...

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Sadly, California Voted to Send Adam Schiff to the U.S. Senate

A review of the status of critical California congressional district races that will hopefully insulate this nation from Schiff’s anti-Trump delusions. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that when ...

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‘Resistance’ Lawfare Abusers Must Be Held Accountable

Trump “can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion ...

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The Rise and Fall of Kamala Harris — Legal Insurrection Podcast: Episode 15

What a night Episode 15 is up! What an election that was. We discuss whether our election predictions were correct, what we saw, and what lies ahead. Watch: Listen: If our discussion resonated with yo...

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More Winning: Progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón Loses Reelection

“The progressive prosecutor was defeated handily by Nathan Hochman, a Republican-turned-independent former tax attorney.” As if Trump’s monumental comeback victory wasn’t enough, the George Soros-back...

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Trump Victory Pulls Us Back From The Abyss

“my initial reaction is a sense that we’ve been pulled back from the edge, like we were standing on a ledge, and someone has just pulled us back and given us a second chance.” My initial reaction to T...

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Trump Wins Reelection

A sweeping victory, likely to surpass 300 electoral votes and win the popular vote as well. Donald Trump is the winner and has been reelected, with both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin being called for him...

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