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What is Citizens United ? How did the landmark Supreme Court decision affect your free speech rights? In this explainer, FIRE dives into the history behind the case, details of the Court's ruling, as ...
As Senior Program Counsel for the Policy Reform team at FIRE, Ryan has spent the past five years working with college administrators, students, faculty, and other stakeholders to collaborate towards i...
Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com Over the last academic year, the University of Pennsylvania has experienced fierce protests , congressional hearings , and outcry from students, faculty, and donor...
DEI mandates are also hurting implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan measure that is designed to enhance U.S. semiconductor supply chains. In 2021, Biden came into office promising ...
Shutterstock.com Confidence in higher education has plummeted to its lowest level ever according to the results of two new national polls commissioned by FIRE and conducted by NORC at the University o...
COLUMBIA, S.C., June 11, 2024 — The University of South Carolina has earned a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Green light ratings are reserved for instit...
Andrew Leyden / Shutterstock.com George Washington University Police officers tussle with protesters who tried to raise the Palestinian flag on the campus flagpole on May 2, 2024. Ask just about any A...
The agents commonly wished each other a “safe shift” because of all of the attacks. Judicial Watch received 116 pages from the Secret Service detailing the times (at least 30) when President Joe Biden...
Michael Gordon / Shutterstock.com The widespread availability of Zoom, Google Meet, and similar online platforms for virtual meetings has been speech-expanding in many ways. They allow speakers to rea...
Guillaume Bigot “This law will require me and my mom to give sensitive personal information to major tech companies simply to access platforms that have been an integral part of my development,” said ...
Search all Cases Sarrita Adams, claiming to hold a University of Cambridge Ph.D. in Biochemistry, attracted a worldwide media “ frenzy ” after she tried to intervene in a high-profile murder trial, ar...
The laws protect women’s sports and spaces by allowing for distinctions between men and women without running afoul of anti-discrimination ordinances and by requiring sex-segregated spaces. Oklahoma a...
Search all Cases Motion to Dismiss When military historian James P. Gregory Jr. criticized Pennsylvania politician Douglas Mastriano’s academic scholarship, he anticipated a good-faith debate. Instead...
Kraevski Vitaly / Shutterstock.com WATCH: No, you can't be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance UPDATED (June 4, 2024): VICTORY! After FIRE wrote to Twin Ridge Elementary School about the unconstitu...
Charles Huang / Shutterstock.com Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. In a refreshing turn of events, Harvard University officially announced on Tuesday that neither the school...
This article was updated on June 13 at 2:20 p.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit seeking to roll back access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions. In a ...
Starting in 2011, FIRE led a national fight against the erosion of free speech and due process rights on campus that resulted from the abuse of Title IX. Last updated Feb. 4, 2025 If you hear talk of ...
Shutterstock.com UPDATED (June 4, 2024): Victory! On May 28, FIRE followed up its letter to the Florida Department of Education with a public comment concerning its proposed library media training doc...
“The rot within The Hague runs deep.” This has never been more obvious than in the last several months. From the Wall Street Journal : The ICC’s Brazen Anti-Israel Bias The House passed a bill last we...
Complaint: To enter the Jew Exclusion Zone, students had to disavow Israel and get approval from the pro-Hamas activists in the encampment. This spring, we watched with disgust as radical anti-Israel ...