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First Amendment News 254: Ian Millhiser on Justice Thomas's maverick views on modern free speech jurisprudence

Official Clarence Thomas portrait. (Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) Justice Clarence Thomas, like Justice William O. Douglas, prides himself on being a constituti...

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Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part two: Trigger warnings, screen time v. social media, COVID-19 and the continuing decline of Gen Z's mental health

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of “ The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Gen...

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New Title IX regulations carefully balance the rights of all students

Shutterstock.com On May 6, the Department of Education completed a nearly 18-month-long process of reforming how educational institutions must handle Title IX complaints by publishing new regulations ...

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Megyn Kelly’s full Tara Reade interview – Do you believe her? (Reader Poll)

Team Biden is going after Reade with a fury, this interview could be a problem for him if the mainstream media dares play it. Megyn Kelly released on YouTube a 42-minute interview with Tara Reade, who...

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FAN 253.1: Floyd Abrams: 'It’s a new day in the history of the speech and press clauses.'

Floyd Abrams In FAN 247 , I profiled Wendell Bird's “ The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox’s Libel Act ” (Oxford University Press, 2020) (clot...

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Education Dept. issues new Title IX regs with crucial campus due process protections, adopts Supreme Court sexual harassment definition

WASHINGTON, May 6, 2020 — Advocates for free speech and due process on campus won one of their biggest-ever victories today with the finalization of long-awaited new Department of Education Title IX r...

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First Amendment News 253: Mary Anne Franks: "[T]he narrative of widespread liberal intolerance and suppression of conservative views on college campuses is simply false."

(Felix Lipov/Shutterstock.com) There has been a lot of talk in recent years about censorship on college campuses, quite often at the behest of liberal or progressive students and faculties. Many books...

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Declassified Docs: Clapper ‘Never Saw Any Direct Empirical Evidence’ of Trump-Russia Collusion

“But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence.” The House Intelligence Committee released documents related to its investigation of possible collusion between then-candidate Donald Tru...

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Dickinson College seeks to identify, but says it won’t punish, operator of anonymous ‘Men of Dickinson’ Instagram account

Bosler Hall at Dickinson College. Earlier this month, Dickinson College’s administration and security officials sought to identify the anonymous operator of an Instagram account, “menofdickinson,” whi...

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New study suggests ineffectiveness, and possible harms, of trigger warnings in college setting

A new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied seeks to assess the effect trigger warnings may have on resilience, focusing in particular on college students who have not experienced t...

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Kansas student forced to sleep in car after university kicks him out of housing during stay-at-home order

Student Russell Parker was left homeless after his university suspended him, then banned him from the dorms without a hearing, over a non-violent interaction with an employee. LAWRENCE, Kan., April 29...

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Courtroom access: Let’s talk data – the public line

This post is based extensively on data collected by Casey Quinlan, Kalvis Golde and Katie Bart and analyzed and put into graphic form by Kalvis Golde and Katie Bart. It’s one of the questions we get m...

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Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part one: Introduction

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Gener...

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Fired for his views, UNT math professor brings free speech lawsuit

Shutterstock.com In total defiance of the First Amendment, the University of North Texas has fired a math professor for criticizing the concept of microaggressions and for refusing to attend extra div...

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VICTORY: College settles with ‘antifa’ professor fired for criticizing President Trump on Facebook, avoids First Amendment lawsuit from FIRE

Kirkwood Community College finalized a settlement with Jeff Klinzman, who was fired for his political speech on Facebook. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April 27, 2020 — Kirkwood Community College avoided a Firs...

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Investigation: The Islamist Origins of Anti-Israel Activists’ Coronavirus Narratives

Part 2 of an investigation into how anti-Israel activists have hijacked the coronavirus crisis to use against Israel. In April 2020, we published an in-depth investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists A...

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Report: Harvard Law School administrator canceled 2015 event on dissent in China

ThePhotosite / Shutterstock.com Today, The Harvard Crimson released an in-depth piece detailing Harvard University’s relationship with China against the backdrop of the complicated U.S.-China relation...

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How social media companies and government actors can improve freedom of expression online

This week, FIRE released a survey of over 200 public universities and colleges that used public records requests to explore how these government actors filter content and block users on their official...

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The best response to speech you don’t like? More speech.

Last week, the Jewish News Syndicate reported that a Palestinian student who was recently elected the vice president of student government at Rutgers University-Newark had, in the past, posted a carto...

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Report: Majority of 17 international intelligence agencies believe COVID-19 started as accidental release from Wuhan lab.

Leaked intelligence dossier reportedly reveals China’s deceptions over coronovirus pandemic start Legal Insurrection has been closely following the news related to the start of the Wuhan Coronavirus p...

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