Joy Behar Has No Idea What the ACLU Does or That Hate Speech Is Protected Under the First Amendment
Donald Trump is far from the only person who doesn't understand the Bill of Rights.
Donald Trump is far from the only person who doesn't understand the Bill of Rights.
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
The pundit made the claim at a Senate hearing on allegations of tech censorship against conservatives.
The plaintiff, Yan Huang, is vice minister of China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Defendant, Wengui Guo, who also goes by Miles Kwok, has been described as a "renegade Chinese billionaire," who fled China and now lives in New York.
The late Supreme Court justice was an inconsistent defender of civil liberties.
The retired Supreme Court justice has died at 99.
Plus: Planned Parenthood's CEO is terminated, the Trump administration drains the swap, and Chelsea Manning is hit with more fines.
But they would prefer to be able to snoop on civilians who use the encrypted chat app.
The government shouldn't pass special laws that prevent people from revealing what's true.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
"No reasonable officer would engage in such recklessness," complains dissenting judge.
Farm groups get politicians to pass laws against secret filming on farms.
And will the end result encourage companies to try to keep cybersecurity breaches secret?
Dr. Calvin Day had claimed that describing his suspension as based on "unprofessional conduct" was libelous. (He had also earlier sought to get dismissed criminal charges expunged, and tried to bind local news outlets to the expungement order.) He lost, and was ordered to pay over $80,000 in attorney's fees.
If there’s one thing government types can agree on, it’s that nobody should be allowed to buy and sell stuff without permission.
UC–Santa Barbara's Title IX office is "aware of this matter and actively engaged in a response."
(Disclosure: I had filed an objection, on my own behalf, to the motion to seal.)
A scientific consensus has emerged that trigger warnings just don't work—and student activists should stop demanding them.
More than just a mixed metaphor -- it's a legal doctrine.
Aggressive asset forfeiture collides with First Amendment rights.
At his social media summit on Thursday, the president ranted incoherently about the media's "crooked," "dishonest," and "dangerous" speech.
The idea that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone has been turned on its head.
The City of Baltimore has dropped its attempt to use eminent domain to take the Preakness Stakes Horse Race. But questions linger about the city's willingness to continue to use the threat of condemnation to force Preakness and other commercial enterprises to stay in the city.
The lawsuit alleges that MSU has denied due process rights to student defendants in order to placate critics of its sexual assault policies.
Plus: Air-launched rockets, the GOP becomes the party of Trump, and Pelosi feuds with AOC.
"The cost of not doing this is the harm done to other Googlers every time they encounter these terms," says the company's diversity and inclusion team.
An interesting D.C. trial court decision from last year, involving an image of nudity submitted as part of a court case.
The president invited Republican lawmakers as well as social media stars who claim that tech giants are suppressing free speech.
The New York congresswoman's use of Twitter seems similar to the president's in constitutionally relevant ways.
New Orleans can't use zoning regulations to decide what counts as artistic expression.
The plaintiff had pleaded guilty to, among other things, having sex with a minor (apparently when he was 21 and the minor was 15); the alleged libel stemmed from, among other things, reports of that crime.
So a district court held today.
Today’s decision fits awkwardly with a usual element of a designated public forum – that the government has created rules allowing for open discourse and is thus bound by those rules.
Few people who tweeted #NotMyAriel were actually upset about Halle Bailey portraying the mermaid princess.
The court says the "interactive space" created by his account is a public forum, meaning that the president's viewpoint discrimination violates the First Amendment.
Officers will now have to argue that killing was necessary and not just say they had a fear they were in danger.
The reasoning would apply to other politicians' accounts that are seen as "official" rather than personal, and to accounts that are run by government entities (such as school boards) rather than individual politicians.
Jon Goldsmith was charged with third-degree harassment after calling Deputy Cory Dorsey a "stupid sum bitch" online.
An interesting Massachusetts decision from a couple of months ago, upholding a trial court's refusal to seal under such circumstances.
State DMVs are building a vast national digital identification database for federal law enforcement.
As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over.
A new report from the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights finds a "shockingly high" number of politically motivated extrajudicial killings.
"Purdue's process fell short of what even a high school must provide to a student facing a days-long suspension."
An anonymous lawsuit claims that it's tortious to try to artificially boost the prominence of an embarrassing article.
The new law says that someone buying a semi-automatic rifle has to be at least 21, pass a stricter background check, take a safety training course, and complete a 10-day waiting period.