Are Omarosa's White House Recordings Even Legal?
The answer is not likely to please President Trump.
The answer is not likely to please President Trump.
Thanks to legislation that passed in March, all Florida public schools must display "In God We Trust" signage in "a conspicuous place."
This will lead the order to be vacated; and the parallel case seeking removal of a Chicago Tribune post has also been dropped.
Should libertarians cheer, boo, or do a shrug-emoji when a private social media platform bans the likes of Alex Jones?
No more than 30 far right rally goers showed up at what turned into a gathering of the far left.
"The IRS recognized it as a 501(c)(3) organization and went the extra step of recognizing PCMW as a church, the most enviable of all tax statuses. exempt not only from income tax but also from the transparency that filing Form 990 creates. A church does not have to apply for exempt status, but it is a prudent step particularly for an innovative organization like PCMW."
But most counterprotesters were calm and nuanced about free speech and fascism at the D.C. rally.
It's implausible to imagine a future in which liberal activists don't demand that right-of-center groups be de-platformed.
Canada called on Saudi Arabia to release a blogger from prison. Here's how Saudi Arabia responded.
The National Park Service says there's an "enormous cost" to managing large political protests.
Michael Chertoff gets a post at Freedom House.
Had the bill passed, Argentina's conservative president said he would sign it into law.
The idea that "free speech is a conservative value and censorship is a liberal value" is "historically completely illiterate."
This is the latest in a series of federal court decision rejecting such arguments. The right to operate a taxi business does not create a "property" right in suppressing competition.
The classical liberal group accuses Facebook of bias.
The tasing of an 11-year-old girl highlights a police department's policies.
Alex Jones tweeted "When they try to ban you, but you keep on winning" above a celebratory glass of champagne.
From a lawyer's letter demanding that a story about a now-expunged arrest be expunged from a newspaper as well as from the government records-but the law, fortunately, does not support this argument.
People appalled by Cody Wilson's firearm fabrication software tend to forget about the First Amendment.
How the gun control lobbies nearly tricked Congress into banning millions of ordinary guns.
The same happened to the case against the Chicago Tribune, in which the judge orally ordered the Tribune to take down a post that contained the picture (though the written order failed to reflect that).
"Free speech and free expression have simply never existed in China or in its artist communities."
No, says the Fifth Circuit, striking down as unconstitutionally overbroad a Louisiana statute that apparently bans threatening public employees with lawsuits or complaints -- and not just with violence -- "with the intent to influence [the employee's official] conduct."
No one will miss Infowars, but that's beside the point.
Officials trying to stop people from sharing information online are still raging against Napster.
Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple accuse him of violating their platforms' speech codes.
Many state constitutions require the government to pay compensation when it acts in ways that "damage" private property. An important new article by legal scholar Maureen Brady reveals the previously ignored history of these provisions, and the lessons that can be learned from it.
The podcast crew takes on the The New York Times' controversial new hire, Trump's trade war escalations, Medicare-for-all, and 3D-printed guns.
It's not a crime to travel with lots of cash. But you still might be treated like a criminal.
Prospective tour guides won't have to cough up nearly $100 and study for weeks to talk about their city anymore.
There is no First Amendment exception for "hate speech," and the government can't specially target racist or religiously bigoted speech -- but some Connecticut prosecutors seem not to know that.
As often happens, news reports misunderstand what "stand your ground" laws mean.
Most federal circuit courts have held that people generally have a right to record what police officers do in public places. But how far does that extend?
What a deleted tweet says about the direction of a civil liberties organization.
They should tread carefully before scrapping reproductive rights now that the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade is real
When Americans do it, it's called participating in democracy. When Russians do it, it's called undermining democracy.
Air marshals have snooped on about 5,000 of us since March-and not because they suspected any of those people of specific crimes.
Sean Thomas Banks assured the family he was taking them for "safekeeping."
The "right to be forgotten" sneaking into American courts? Google has not complied with the court order -- and the plaintiff is now trying to get it held in contempt of court.
It's never been illegal to make your own firearms.
Did the settlement with the distributor of home gun-making hardware and software remove computer files from the United States Munitions List or just temporarily stop treating them as affected munitions?
Three ways of thinking about the problem: 1. Software is like hardware. 2. Software is like instruction manuals. 3. Alexa, read this book and make me a gun.
Call out hypocrisy, but don't join the lynch mob.
David Cole defends the First Amendment's viewpoint neutrality, obliquely rebutting critics who question his group's commitment to it.
They are years away (if ever) from becoming the choice of bad guys, who can already make untraceable weapons, so why all the fear-mongering?
The platform is struggling to handle contradictory laws about legal and illegal use of pot