Free Speech Under Threat from E.U. Campaign Against 'Terrorist Content'
Civil liberties advocates warn that the legislation threatens activism, journalism, and satire.
Civil liberties advocates warn that the legislation threatens activism, journalism, and satire.
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
No, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, though over a dissent.
"In Tinker, this Court held that "[i]t can hardly be argued that … students … shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Yet [the school district] argues that students shed much of their freedom of speech even outside the schoolhouse gate, so long as their off-campus speech is reasonably expected to reach campus."
Luther Hall was assaulted so severely he required a spinal fusion.
A federal appeals court rejects a highly implausible redefinition of machine guns.
in light of the Supreme Court's forthcoming Mahanoy and Americans For Prosperity cases.
The officers knowingly violated the First Amendment, said the court. But that doesn't matter.
A blanket ban on medical procedures for minors is not a prescription for human liberty.
Sounds right to me.
It is the first city in the U.S. to do so.
A federal appellate court lets a professor's First Amendment claim go forward, in an opinion that powerfully protects faculty academic freedom more broadly.
“It is not the role of the executive—particularly the unelected administrative state—to dictate” the terms of criminal law, said the 6th Circuit.
Even Joe Biden and Barack Obama were willing to acknowledge this basic fact just a few years ago.
Threatening government action to stop "snotty tweets" is not a good look.
In 28 states, there's no minimum age for arresting kids.
Predictive policing lets authorities add a science-y gloss to hammering people who rub them the wrong way.
A long awaited decision in a challenge to the Trump Administration's "bump stock" ban tees up some interesting questions for the High Court's review.
The suggestion that the ordinance could have prevented Monday's mass shooting is utterly implausible.
This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
Under the First Amendment, the question of whether Assange qualifies as a legitimate journalist is irrelevant.
Thirteen years after Heller, it's time for the Supreme Court to settle whether the Second Amendment applies outside the home.
According to the dissent, the appeals court "has decided that the Second Amendment does not mean what it says."
My article considers the implications of a major takings case currently before the Supreme Court.
Cracking down on protesters angry about police violence doesn't exactly inspire civic trust.
but with "blurring images of [Susan] Muller's body and blood spatter."
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The president has ordered the Education Department to consider rescinding reforms aimed at protecting the due process rights of accused students.
The former Trump campaign lawyer insists her allegations about systematic voting fraud were not "statements of fact."
It is hard to see how an "assault weapon" ban or expanded background checks could have prevented this attack.
In this post, I consider some additional issues that came up in the recent Supreme Court oral argument in an important takings case.
That’s a clearly established constitutional mandate, the Eighth Circuit holds, so a university can’t get qualified immunity from liability in such a case.
The Court seems likely to rule in favor of property rights in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
When Amazon won't sell your book, you can head to Barnes & Noble. When government cancels your expression, there's nowhere left to go.
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I'm continuing to serialize a forthcoming article of mine that discusses (among other things) such a proposed interpretation of libel law.
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
It strains credulity to believe random tweets can lead otherwise normal people to drive across the country and stage an insurrection.