Security clearances can be denied based on constitutionally protected speech; but there's an adjudicative process aimed at reviewing whether such denials make sense in light of the facts of each case.
The brief urges the Supreme Court to reverse its badly misguided precedent in Pruneyard v. Robins.
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Younger Americans, in particular, appear to support calls for Palestinian liberation, but do they understand what a common slogan means?
Let's focus concretely on proposed bans on advocacy of "genocide," at Stanford and beyond.
LaShawn Craig may spend years behind bars—because the gun he used to justifiably shoot someone was unlicensed.
Competing FISA Section 702 reauthorization bills will reach the House floor next week, Speaker Johnson says.
a few comments on the oral arguments in SEC v. Jarkesy
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"We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good."
So a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel concluded this Summer, over a sharp dissent.
Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.
"And in (partial) defense of Harvard President Claudine Gay's controversial congressional testimony."
The Court has been asked to intervene in cases involving abortion pills and criminal prosecution of abortion doctors.
"Conservatives like Rep. Elise Stefanik should ask themselves: Do you honestly believe this [proposed new rule against "calls for genocide"] won't be weaponized to ban an Israeli cabinet official from speaking at Penn? An Israeli Defense Force soldier?"
"Double standards are frustrating, but we should address them by demanding free speech be protected consistently — not by expanding the calls for censorship."
Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism has been suppressed on campuses.
The former journalist defends misinformation in the Trump era and explains why so many journalists are against free speech.
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The court required the university defendants to keep plaintiff's identity confidential (common in pseudonymous Title IX cases), but refused to extend this to media, students, and others.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill last month that would bar federal agencies from forcing employees to respect preferred names or pronouns.
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
She was the first woman Supreme Court justice, and played a key role in changing the Court's jurisprudence for the better on several issues.
The political push behind the law was well-meaning. But it will backfire on many prospective renters.
The ban, scheduled to take effect on January 1, is likely unconstitutional in multiple ways, the judge held.
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A district court refuses to enter default judgment against caselaw publisher Leagle, concluding that the plaintiff's claims against Leagle were legally insufficient.
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