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Shutterstock.com Actor Kirk Cameron and conservative publisher Brave Books are “calling on all families who love God and love America” to book meeting rooms at their local public libraries on Aug. 5 t...
Search all Cases Political officeholders widely recognize and embrace the power of social media. From mayors to district attorneys, congressional representatives to police chiefs, public officials fr...
Public libraries — as well as local or state governments that might impose bans — are government actors bound by the First Amendment. (Last updated Aug. 26, 2025) In the last few years, libraries have...
TV channel i24NEWS : Nabbed terrorist “received detailed instructions and weapons from senior officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in Iran.” Days after the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad ...
Glynnis Jones / Shutterstock.com A policeman walks by a protester who is holding a sign that reads 'Fox News Lies' on the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Lies...
Jack Gruber / USA TODAY People on the steps on the Supreme Court building after handing down opinions in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern, Counterman v. Colorado, and Moore v. Harper on Tuesday, June 27, 2...
Moab Republic / Shutterstock.com Entrance to St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas. UPDATED (Feb. 28, 2024): After FIRE's advocacy, Dr. Johnson Varkey has been reinstated as a biology professor a...
The Supreme Court agreed to decide what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides to employees who contend they were the victim of a discriminatory transfer. The justices announce...
Yale University declined to renew the teaching contract of adjunct professor Bandy Lee (left) in 2020 after she criticized the mental state of then-President Donald Trump (right). Yale University scor...
Scott Clause / The Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK Baton Rouge police respond to crowds protesting the killing of Alton Sterling on July 10, 2016. The Sons of Liberty protests against taxes on newspape...
Jake M. Media / Shutterstock.com Bay City native Madonna — no fan of censorship — probably wouldn’t be thrilled with her Michigan hometown’s violation of its citizens’ First Amendment rights. The city...
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument next fall in a major gun-rights case challenging the constitutionality of a federal ban on the possession of guns by individuals who are subject to domestic v...
Search all Cases The government of Bay City, Michigan, prohibits people speaking during the public comment period of city commission meetings from “demeaning” city officials, making “derogatory commen...
Thomas Bender / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK Christopher Rufo (center) is escorted by police away from protestors at the New College of Florida on May 15, 2023. Earlier this week, New C...
(Justin Kozemchak / Shutterstock.com) Last month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a letter and resolution agreement regarding book removals at some Forsyth County S...
Chief Justice Roberts for the 6-3 majority: “The race-based admissions systems that respondents employ also fail to comply with the twin commands of the Equal Protection Clause that race may never be ...
University of College / Shutterstock.com In a recent turn of events, FIRE’s understanding of actions by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine regarding recommendations f...
Random House Children's Books As a teen, I didn’t like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The ending bears the hallmarks of a cop-out and I swore I could pinpoint the moment when Twain put the manu...
Shutterstock.com Graduation time used to be known as “ disinvitation season ” around FIRE’s offices, as we prepared for the yearly increase in demands by faculty members and students to revoke the inv...
This article was updated on June 29 at 4:09 p.m. In a historic decision, the Supreme Court severely limited, if not effectively ended, the use of affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday. ...