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FIRE brief: TikTok law is unprecedented threat to Americans’ expressive rights

Never before has Congress taken the extraordinary step of effectively banning a communications platform, let alone one used by half the country. But this spring, Congress did exactly that when it pass...

2024-07-17

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Getting copyright wrong: Nashville judge cites copyright law to withhold Covenant school shooter’s writings

KennStilger47 via Shutterstock The Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee A Nashville judge held that the journal entries of school shooter Audrey Hale, who went by Aiden, can’t be release...

2024-07-17

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Tech companies’ censorship compliance abroad, dual U.S.-Saudi citizen facing jail time, and more free speech trouble in the UK

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...

2024-07-16

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Prepare For Impact Fundraiser – Legal Insurrection Summer 2024

Things have been exciting here. You can DONATE HERE to help us continue bringing free content and news coverage as we brace for more impacts this year. It feels like the old days of the blogopshere. T...

2024-07-22

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Hunt adv. Lombardi: Sergeants-At-Arms Expel Man Wearing 'Pro-Life U' Sweatshirt from Colorado State Senate Gallery

Search all Cases Government officials can’t kick someone out of a public legislative gallery just because they don’t like the message on their shirt. If there is anywhere that Americans’ First Amendme...

2024-07-16

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Freedom of Conscience

Freedom of conscience means the right to arrive at one’s private beliefs without being coerced into an artificial unity by those who wield power over us. After all, the freedom to speak is a dead lett...

2024-07-14

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Groups across ideological spectrum unite in opposing Antisemitism Awareness Act

Shutterstock.com Since October 7 and the subsequent campus protests around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed to address concerns about anti-Semitism on coll...

2024-07-12

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Sticker Mule: ‘People Are Terrified to Admit They Support Trump’

“Many at Sticker Mule support Trump. Many at Sticker Mule also support Biden. The political hate needs to stop.” In a world increasingly divided by political beliefs, Anthony Constantino, co-founder o...

2024-07-21

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Surveys reveal rising student and faculty concern about censorship, self-censorship post-October 7

Shutterstock In a year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict went from barely a blip on most students’ radars to an almost all-consuming concern. Findings from FIRE’s forthcoming 2025 College Free Speech ...

2024-07-12

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Middle Tennessee State University earns top rating for free speech

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., July 12, 2024 — Middle Tennessee State University is the latest school to earn a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Only 68 colleges an...

2024-07-12

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University of Florida suspends student for three years over peaceful protest

Shutterstock Plaza of the Americas at the University of Florida University of Florida president Ben Sasse has historically spoken out in defense of free speech on campus. FIRE agrees with him that col...

2024-07-11

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Cancel Culture Boomerangs on the Left as They Wish Trump Assassination Attempt had Been Successful

“Libs of TikTok and other accounts have chronicled the hideous remarks of many others regarding the attempted Trump assassination” It’s amazing how many people have stupidly put themselves out there s...

2024-07-21

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Trump Was Denied Additional Security Contrary To Secret Service Assertions, WaPo Reports

“Those rejections — in response to requests that were several times made in writing — led to long-standing tensions that pitted Trump, his top aides and his security detail against Secret Service lead...

2024-07-21

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Anthony Fauci: Assassination Attempt On Trump No Big Deal Since An Ear Wound Is “Superficial”

“I mean, from what we’ve seen and what we’ve heard, it was a bullet shot that grazed his ear and injured his ear, according to the physicians who examined him. There was no other further damage.” It’s...

2024-07-20

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California School District Sues Newsom Over Transgender Notification Ban

“The plaintiffs are not aware of any professional body that has endorsed school-facilitated social transitions without parental knowledge.” Just one day after Governor Gavin Newsom signed it into law,...

2024-07-19

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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to Testify in Front of House Oversight on Monday

“Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump” will begin at 10 AM ET. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify in front of the House ...

2024-07-19

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Whistleblowers: Secret Service had ‘Limited Resources’ at Trump Rally Due to NATO

“The USSS Special Agent in Charge Tim Burke reportedly told law enforcement partners that the USSS had limited resources that week because the agency was covering the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio...

2024-07-18

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WWII Veteran’s Moving RNC Speech: ‘America is Our Home’

The audience erupted with chants of “USA” after war hero announced, “If President Trump was back as commander in chief, I would go back and reenlist today.” During the Republican National Convention, ...

2024-07-18

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Report: Trump Met Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at RNC

I do not know if it happened before or after Sens. Marsha Blackburn and John Barrasso confronted Cheatle on Wednesday. Fox News reported that former President Donald Trump met with Secret Service Dire...

2024-07-18

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Video Shows Trump Shooter Mulling Around Rally an Hour Before the Attack

We know that the Secret Service knew about Crooks an hour before the shooting. It keeps getting worse. The video is disturbing : The man, who didn’t want to show his face on camera, captured the video...

2024-07-18