"There is no notary in Fulton County named Amanda Sparks.... The notarization by Amanda Sparks is a forgery.... Connie Hood and Jesse Wood are not real. Connie Hood and Jesse Wood were fabricated in order to obtain a stipulated order of permanent injunction removing criticism of Adam Lynd from the internet.... Howard Marks is not real.... Robert Smith is not real.... Damon Lentz is not real...."
But partisan Democrats tried to use a fake news scare to quash it anyway.
Parents aren't neglecting to keep their kids safe from laundry detergent. If anything, teens are overprotected.
Think immigration crackdowns don't affect you? You're wrong.
State senator proposes mandatory minimums for repeat First Amendment violators.
The surveillance agency's mission statement is updated to reflect reality: It doesn't answer to you.
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
Illinois and Texas think biometric identifiers are a lawsuit waiting to happen.
When government officials suppress critics, they do so only to help themselves.
Critics of free speech use the same old arguments on new technologies.
I'm all for carefully reading the words of the Constitution, and applying the distinctions that it draws -- but we need to make sure we're understanding just what those distinctions are.
Many restrictions on liberty may be unwise and wrong -- but not unconstitutional.
Will Baude and I have cosigned a new amicus brief on this in Janus v. AFSCME.
The government now says it will prosecute only those it can prove committed specific criminal acts.
They voted to expand federal snooping. Now they're outraged about how it's used.
Is there a place in our system for a jury to acquit because the jurors believe the underlying law is unconstitutional?
The latest twist in the Barley House case -- and my attempt to intervene.
Because "there is a First Amendment right to videotape police officers while they are conducting their official duties in public," that right applies even over the objections of the people being arrested by the officers.
The crucial difference is not temperamental but institutional.
And that's so even if the van is red, white, and blue.
In theory, yes. But not in the world we actually live in, where law enforcement is already rife with numerous discretionary decisions made unavoidable by the fact that we have far too many laws.
McCain and Jeff Flake are right to slam the president's juvenile rhetoric, but questionably blame Trump for global trends while neglecting the press crackdowns of his predecessor.
Although his conviction was invalid, the appeals court says, his civil commitment as a "sexually dangerous person" remains legal.
Both Democrats and Republicans are missing the mark when they call for the government to control the flow of information on the internet.
The former Director of National Intelligence lied under oath about warrantless NSA spying on American citizens.
Sen. Claire McCaskill and her Democratic colleagues had a chance to check the Trump administration's surveillance powers on Tuesday. They failed.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Lawmakers will advance legislation that expands the power of the feds to snoop on American citizens.
The reason: Steven Spielberg shot some scenes for Schindler's List in Israel.
Campus Title IX policies punish male students for similarly problematic sexual encounters.
Suing to prevent such releases.
A likely-fatal blow to to the state's censorious "ag gag" law
Richard Rynearson's online criticisms of Clarence Moriwaki, the court held, were protected by the First Amendment, and thus couldn't justify an antistalking order.
They used to call themselves supporters of limited government. Some still do.
Push by lawmakers for stricter warrant requirements fails.
The state will pay damages and legal fees for violating the First Amendment rights of ISU activists.
Harris only cares about other women's rights when those rights don't conflict with her career ambitions.
Hours later he walks it back.
When it comes to "opening up" the First Amendment, the president's bark is worse than his bite.
Cited for building the treehouse without a proper permit, the family must now file for permits to tear it down.
House to vote on a bill that would codify unwarranted searches of Americans' communications.
The former California attorney general has a long history of hostility to Second Amendment rights.
Fired chemistry professor is suing the school.
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