Prof. James Livingston (white himself) said he "hate[s] white people" -- but Rutgers' reasoning would equally punish professors who express a wide range of views that offend people with a particular religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and the like.
The same civil liberties that protect accused communists or street criminals may also protect the president or his lawyer. They protect us all.
Don't assume Roe v. Wade will be safe with Justice Kavanaugh.
The NRA accuses N.Y. government officials of unconstitutionally pressuring financial services companies into not dealing with the NRA -- an ACLU friend-of-the-court brief says, "If true, those allegations represent a blatant violation of the First Amendment."
The civil rights group and the gun rights group don't always get along. But today the ACLU stuck up for the NRA against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against the officer.
Israa al-Ghomgham would be the first female activist to be executed in Saudi Arabia.
The insults were in e-mails sent to the Turkish embassy.
Far from undermining freedom of the press, the president's fulminations prove its durability.
The court stressed that the song threated particular police officers by name.
"For some of us it's as if we are already dead, so what do we have to lose?"
"I didn't feel comfortable being told what I couldn't write about by President Falwell."
An Oklahoma case involving an employee's allegations of food plant contamination-litigated under seal.
Masked Antifa agitators told Welch, a Hillary voter, to hand over the flag. He resisted. They attacked.
An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Words of wisdom from Rhode Island Judge Richard Licht.
More details emerge on TSA's secret, suspicionless surveillance of certain American travelers.
A story of censorship in the age of memes
It's not the first time Apple has bowed to China's censorship demands.
The House majority leader doesn't understand how Twitter works.
Plus: digital privacy concerns down 11 percent since 2015
Unconstitutional viewpoint-discrimination, and the Park Service has acknowledged it was a mistake.
Tiffany Huang and her fiancé just wanted to exercise their "right to free speech." But security guards apparently had other ideas.
Texas, like some other states, allows law-abiding adults who have concealed carry licenses to carry at public universities as well as elsewhere; this was challenged on First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause grounds.
Even if permanent injunctions against speech that has been found to be libelous are constitutional, preliminary orders based on a mere finding that the speech is likely libelous -- or just might be libelous -- are generally unconstitutional.
"If I have to specifically write word for word exactly what you are and are not permitted to print…then I'll do that," the judge said.
The 87-year-old woman was cutting dandelions with a kitchen knife.
London already has restrictive gun and knife controls. Could cars be next?
Masterpiece Cakeshop is back with a new lawsuit over another rejection.
White nationalists were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters at Sunday's Unite the Right II rally, but the whole affair cost the District millions.
The conspiracy theorist's account has been restricted for seven days.
An interesting case now being litigated in federal court in Wisconsin.
From the alt-right to Twitter deactivation, bands drinking booze to presidents crowing for cronyism, we'll hash it out on Sirius XM Insight channel 121 today from 9-12 ET
Pro-life and a Democrat? Missouri's Democratic Party isn't interested.
#MeToo madness: it's wrong to use Title IX, a feminist tool, "to take down a feminist."
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.
