Law, Courts & Regulations
In its Murthy v. Missouri ruling last week, the Supreme Court stopped short of deciding whether pressure on social media platforms by federal officials to censor speakers violates the First Amendment....
Shutterstock.com Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton , which upheld Texas’ adult content age-verification law. As FIRE explain...
College students gather outside the Constitution Center during FIRE's 2023 Student Network Conference. Justo Antonio Triana is a rising senior at Syracuse University and a FIRE summer intern. There’s ...
These Massachusetts officials are not for choice. Therefore, they are pro-abortion. Massachusetts has launched a taxpayer funded campaign costing $1 million to attack pregnancy centers. Or, as the off...
Shutterstock.com Were the Gaza solidarity encampments erected on college campuses this spring an effective, or even legitimate, form of protest? Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? It depends on wh...
AP Photo / Peter Kramer Rapper Christopher "B.G." Dorsey at the 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors ceremony at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Oct. 4, 2007. If a person breaks the law and goes to p...
Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK University of Michigan students walk out for to protest a proposed disruptive activity policy. Last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released i...
Clooney is also buddy buddy with Obama. Oh my goodness, you guys. George Clooney demanded Joe Biden step aside. Yes, it’s a big deal coming from Clooney. You know, the left and Democrats get on Republ...
Ron Adar / Shutterstock.com A new letter from House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer to the executive director of American Muslims for Palestine is a chilling development in...
Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK University of Michigan doctoral student Allison Cale carries a sign that reads "Free Speech! Free Palestine!" as students walk out to protest a proposed disruptive activi...
Search all Cases Read FIRE's amicus brief in TikTok v. Garland In April 2024, President Biden signed into law the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which prohibi...
Sotomayor with the McDonald dissent: “In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense.” On July 5, pro-gun control SCOTUS Justice Sonia...
Erik Cox Photography / Shutterstock.com U.S. Supreme Court chamber in Washington, D.C. Below is a statement from FIRE Chief Counsel Robert Corn-Revere on today's Supreme Court ruling on Murthy v. Miss...
FIRE plaintiff Gregory Bombard. ST. ALBANS, Vt., June 26, 2024 — Justice has a long arm, and the Vermont State Police just got the finger. In February 2018, Gregory Bombard was illegally pulled over, ...
FIRE’s position is that colleges and universities should never seek editorial control over student newspapers. The following selection is excerpted from FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus . “Prior ...
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here . Federal agents arresting someone ...
CLEMSON, S.C., June 17, 2024 — It’s a one-two punch for students’ ability to speak out. Another leading South Carolina university has earned the top rating for free speech from the Foundation for Indi...
“Experts” are tying the rise in dengue fever infections to “climate change” Back in 2016 , I reported that cases of dengue fever were being reported in Florida and Hawaii. Dengue (break-bone fever) is...
With Russia collusion, they were inventing things we couldn’t see and trying to convince us that they happened. With the Biden cognitive failures, they were trying to convince us that something we all...
If you needed any further proof that the rioters then and the rioters now are basically the same crowd of people, here you go. You may remember Urooj Rahman. She is the disbarred lawyer who was senten...