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Cornell concedes small changes to otherwise substantially restrictive new speech policies

Jay Yuan / Shutterstock.com Cornell University has repeatedly demonstrated that its lofty rhetoric about the importance of free expression and open inquiry is just words. While the latest movement on ...

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New Florida law restricts First Amendment rights online

Jonah Hinebaugh / Naples Daily News / USA TODAY NETWORK Gov. Ron DeSantis, shown here in Naples, Florida, on Feb. 28, signed House Bill 3 into law today. The Florida legislature has once again chosen ...

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University of Maryland quickly lifts blanket suspension of fraternities and sororities after litigation, public pressure

Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com Guilt by association, or punishing individuals for their affiliations rather than their actions, is an injustice denounced by courts as “alien to the traditions of...

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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Collapses After a ‘Ship Strike’

“Officials confirmed six people are still unaccounted and two people have been rescued.” Maryland officials are still conducting a search and rescue after a ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in...

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Virginia Commonwealth University earns top rating for free speech

RICHMOND, Va., Mar. 21, 2024 — VCU is the latest school to receive a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Overall green light ratings are reserved for institu...

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West Texas A&M President cancels student charity drag show for second time

Last week, West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler told the Supreme Court that he was banning “any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others." Today President Wendler...

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Supreme Court considers when government ‘persuasion’ becomes unconstitutional coercion

Shutterstock.com The First Amendment bars government censorship, but that doesn’t stop some public officials from trying. While some censor the old-fashioned way, others get creative . According to th...

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French Senate Report: Sex Change Surgery for Minors Could be ‘Greatest Ethical Scandal in the History of Medicine’’

As with “The Science™” behind covid and global warming, the French report indicated that reasoned debate was silenced and challenges to the woke ideology were dismissed. History provides us with many ...

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Utah enacts FIRE’s model bill, protects due process rights on campus

Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 18, 2024 — Last Tuesday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 414 into law, providing robust due process protections for students involved ...

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Valdosta State University

Valdosta, Georgia Search all Schools Valdosta State University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous p...

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NRA case shows the Supreme Court must stop informal censorship

Fred Schilling / Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States This op-ed originally appeared in Bloomberg Law on March 18, 2024. If the First Amendment stands for anything, it stands for the i...

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WHO Warning of More Infectious Monkeypox Strain With Higher Fatality Rate

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, volunteers are being sought to test new mRNA vaccine for ‘mpox’. At the end of last year, I reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned ...

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NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION v. VULLO

No. 22–842 (2024) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Does the First Amendment allow a government regulator to threaten regulated entities with adverse regulatory ...

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MURTHY v. MISSOURI

No. 23–411 (2024) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Did the federal government’s request that private social media companies take steps to prevent the disseminat...

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Big win for students, faculty as Furman University adopts free speech statement

Bryan Pollard / Shuttestock.com Good news out of Furman University ! Last week, Furman joined more than 100 other colleges and universities that have codified the expressive rights of their campus com...

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Israeli PM Netanyahu Cancels Senior Aides’ D.C. Trip After U.S. Abstains From U.N. Gaza Resolution

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said abstaining from the vote does not mean the U.S. changed its policy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a D.C. trip for Ron Dermer an...

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Speech Protected Under the First Amendment

“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagree...

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An Army at the Gates Week at Legal Insurrection

All the news you may have missed. At what point do all of our leaders admit that what’s happening at the southern border is an invasion? Texas knows it. This is the way. Israel updates. Stunning. Prio...

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“what’s going on in New York State with the weaponization of prosecutors’ offices both criminally and civilly is really troubling”

My appearance on The Legal Lowdown with with Imran H. Ansari, Esq.: “That’s the disparity between the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to abuse of the law. It does set a really bad preceden...

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Candace Owens Out At Daily Wire

“The rumors are true— I am finally free.” There’s been some drama over at the Daily Wire between Candace Owens and the site’s co-founder Ben Shapiro. Things seemed tense before the October 7, 2023 Ham...

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