Harvard University Should Emulate Hillsdale College and Cut Ties With the Government
To remain independent, institutions of higher education should end their reliance on taxpayer money.
To remain independent, institutions of higher education should end their reliance on taxpayer money.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."
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The president's lawyers also conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and assert that false speech is not constitutionally protected.
"I blew a zero, so now you're trying to think I smoked weed?” Tayvin Galanakis asked the officer who arrested him in 2022. “That's what's going on. You can't do that, man.”
The boy and his mother are now suing the school district and its officials to protect students' right to free expression.
"After receiving their surrogate baby, the couple purportedly performed an at-home DNA test 'which showed that [the would-be father] was in no way related to the baby.'"
Support for suppressing "violent content" has also dropped.
"This Court should not announce an opt-out right for religious objectors under the Free Exercise Clause that its precedents would foreclose for students objecting to public-school curricula under the Free Speech Clause."
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
In Justice Abandoned, a law professor argues that the Court got these key decisions wrong.
The Court will weigh religious opt-outs and charter school discrimination. But true educational freedom means funding students, not systems.
Sentencing defendants based on acquitted conduct violates basic notions of justice.
The secretary of state, who aims to "liberate American speech," nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him.
After years in the Marvel mines, the Creed director returns with a bloody genre musical.
"This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson warned.
Just a quarter of respondents said they favored deporting students for "expressing pro-Palestine views."
Harvard's law faculty previously criticized the Obama administration's assault on norms of free speech and due process.
But one of the pro-pseudonymity decisions on which the court relies (which also involved a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic behavior) was actually reversed two weeks ago.
The Windy City has been the target of ICE’s ire since President Donald Trump took office.
Vice President J.D. Vance is only the latest to indicate he sees due process, as guaranteed in the Constitution, as an unnecessary impediment to the administration's goals.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the evidence indicates that the government "willfully disobeyed" his order blocking removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Spencer Byrd's case helped spark reforms and a federal lawsuit, but he died before seeing justice.
The bill risks "punishing parents simply for disagreeing with the state's preferred views on gender," Aaron Terr, a First Amendment attorney, tells Reason.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that claim, upholding the right to due process in deportation cases.
The Supreme Court ruled they administration must "facilitate" the return of an illegally deported migrant imprisoned in El Salvador at its behest. They have responded by doing virtually nothing to comply.
The state may have a hard time showing that its broad restrictions are consistent with the "historical tradition of firearm regulation."
Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi thought he was going to become an American. Instead, ICE whisked him away into detention.
Schools across the country are gathering personal information and putting students' privacy at risk.
Is the small-government Democrat beefing up state power?
Richard Nixon infamously drafted an "enemies list" of people he wanted to go after. At least Trump conducts his corruption out in the open.
In Colombia, a court claims the answer is yes. Could that happen here?
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
It's a good step. But the schools should also file their own lawsuit challenging this awful policy.
The Associated Press’s legal victory highlights the limited power presidents and the press have over the creative destruction and spontaneous order of our language.
An immigration judge's decision reinforces the constitutional argument against the law that the secretary of state is invoking.
The woman has since recanted her allegations.
The pro-censorship post was quite the Freudian slip from the Trump administration.
"However legitimate [plaintiff's] concerns, a party's wealth alone is not a legitimate reason to restrict the right of public access."
Without any recorded dissent, the justices rebuke the Trump Administration's cavalier disregard for due process.
Even if Laredo cops punished Priscilla Villarreal for constitutionally protected speech, the appeals court says, they would be protected by qualified immunity.