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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 ...
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...
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...
“The paper would greatly benefit from a shift towards the center to represent the comprehensive views of the community, not just those who lean left.” You could say this about school newspapers and pr...
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...
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...
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”...
My hot take on the false media claim that Trump threstened to have Liz Cheney shot: “this is as bad as I’ve ever seen it.” Today was one of the worst examples of media fraud and election manipulatoin ...
Harvard student Cosette Wu disrupts a speech by Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng at the Harvard Kennedy School, holding a sign that reads "China Lies" on April 20, 2024. Wu then has her arm pulled down and...
University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges When the University of Washington encouraged faculty to include a statement in each course syllabus acknowledging that the school sits on land once held...
Shutterstock.com Dark clouds are settling over Happy Valley. This election season, Pennsylvania State University appears to be unleashing its own October Surprise — against its students. In a brazen d...
What happens after Tuesday? We discuss Episode 14 of the Legal Insurrection Podcast is live! Garbage, predictions, and lots of other super great discussion. Watch: Listen: If our discussion resonated ...
Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday, April 29, 2024. What topics do you think are difficult to discu...
Saenz Photography Citizen Journalist and FIRE plaintiff Priscilla Villarreal. LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 15, 2024 — Texas police threw a journalist in jail for doing her job. Today, the highest court in the ...
“anyone who met him was sure to like him” Jazz Shaw, a blogger and editor for Hot Air passed away this week at the age of 65. Jazz was a friend of the Legal Insurrection blog and many others in the co...
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here . The Supreme Court has taken a lot ...
The Supreme Court will hear an important First Amendment case on Jan. 15, 2025. During their January argument session, which begins on Jan. 13 and continues until Jan. 22, the justices will also consi...
It’s not just a contest between two candidates; it’s a contest between outlooks—a movement that hates the other side to their core and reveals that when among their own. They told us how they really f...
As I see it, apostrophegate rather ends the Hinchcliffe story as a problem for the Trump campaign. And lays it squarely at the feet of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Reacting to an offensive ...
“…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. NBC News reporter Gabe Gutierrez tweeted that...