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Supreme Court Justices raise First Amendment concerns in NetChoice oral argument

Chief Justice John Roberts, shown here at the 2023 State of the Union Address, cut to the heart of the First Amendment questions at stake in the NetChoice hearings before the Supreme Court today. Toda...

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The Supreme Court, Big Tech, and the dark art of politics

This term, the Supreme Court will decide a cluster of cases — the most consequential in my 40-year career practicing First Amendment law — that will markedly shape the relationship between the govern...

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Indiana’s SB 202 holds promise, but needs changes to protect academic freedom

Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com The House of Representatives chamber of the Indiana state capitol building. Today, the Indiana House of Representatives Committee on Education voted to advance Sen...

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Manhattan DA Wants Gag Order on Trump Before ‘Hush Money’ Trial

DA Alvin Bragg: “To protect the integrity of this criminal proceeding and avoid prejudice to the jury, the People respectfully request that this Court issue a narrowly tailored order restricting certa...

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Laura Beltz

Laura has spent a decade on FIRE’s Policy Reform team, working with colleges to create a better foundation for free speech on their campuses. Through her role as director, she heads up efforts to assi...

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Speech codes subvert higher ed’s core purpose. Here’s how to fix them.

Shutterstock.com Each year, FIRE releases a report on the trends we see in our Spotlight database of speech codes — which compiles the written policies that govern student speech at nearly 500 college...

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Cornell falls short with new expression policy and guidance on faculty political speech

Gil C / Shutterstock.com Cornell University talks a big game on free expression. It named freedom of expression the theme of its 2023-24 academic year. Its president, Martha Pollack, has repeatedly af...

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Kalamazoo College Holding ‘SexCon’ in Partnership With Planned Parenthood

“a dynamic week during Winter term at Kalamazoo College, champions sex education and empowerment” Conservative speakers can’t set foot on a college campus without nearly starting a riot, but this is f...

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Whether you call it institutional ‘neutrality’ or ‘restraint,’ the Kalven Report is the best way forward

Stephen Lewellyn / University of Chicago Library / Special Collections Research Center Harry Kalven Jr. delivers a lecture at the University of Chicago Last week, FIRE, along with the Academic Freedom...

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10 Worst Censors: 2024

It’s that time of year again — time for the first spring showers, a forecasting groundhog, flowers and chocolates, king cake, and an annual skewering of America’s worst censors. Each year, FIRE names ...

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VICTORY: Columbia University Law School Student Senate grants recognition to Law Students Against Antisemitism

Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com On Jan. 23, the Columbia Law School Student Senate denied official recognition to a student group called Law Students Against Antisemitism after some student senators ...

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The Communist Origins of Anti-Zionist Antisemitism (Online Event, March 5, Noon Eastern)

The communists weaponized anti-Zionism as part of their war on the free world, and those seeds are still bearing fruit. In this event, you will hear about how it started, and how it’s still going stro...

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FIRE to Supreme Court: Stop government bullies from intimidating social media platforms

Fred Schilling / Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Clockwise from top left: Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh,...

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FIRE’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report reveals 85% of colleges restrict protected speech

Shutterstock.com FIRE’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report , released earlier this month, paints a dire picture of free speech on college campuses. In the 2024 report, FIRE rated the policies tha...

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Spotlight on Speech Codes

FIRE publishes an annual speech code report that condenses the considerable research in our Spotlight database into an accessible picture of the state of free expression on our nation’s campuses, prov...

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Trump Georgia Case: Cellphone Data Allegedly Contradicts Wade’s Testimony About Visiting Willis’s Home Before 2022

According to the data, Wade made “at least 35 visits to the Hapeville neighborhood where Fani Willis was living before the district attorney hired him.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that ...

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Murthy v. Missouri (also known as Missouri v. Biden)

Search all Cases From behind the scenes, various government officials from the Biden administration pressured, cajoled, and intimidated social media platforms into censoring speech and particular spea...

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D.C. high school bans student club from screening documentary critical of Israel

Shutterstock.com Over the past few months, FIRE has battled a surge in censorship of speech about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . The speech controversies often play out on college campuses. But as...

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New York University: University Suspends Faculty Member for Denial of Hamas War Crimes

New York University Search all Cases On January, 25, 2024, New York University announced it had suspended and was investigating adjunct professor Amin Husain for comments he made at a December 7, 2023...

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Kevin O’Leary of ‘Shark Tank’ Blasts New York Ruling on Trump: ‘I Would Never Invest in New York Now’

“I’m not different than any other investor. I’m shocked at this. I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all.” Kevin O’Leary, the investor/developer host of ‘Shark Tank’ on ABC, recently app...

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