First Amendment Limits on State Laws Targeting Election Misinformation, Part V
The need for a comprehensive strategy addressing election misinformation.
The need for a comprehensive strategy addressing election misinformation.
The relative narrowness of the law, the court concludes, distinguishes the law from the one struck down in Packingham v. North Carolina.
Plus: Student drag shows are protected speech, a bank CEO rebuffs Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and more...
First Amendment implications for state laws targeting election speech.
Michigan is now a more dangerous place for anyone who flies with large amounts of cash.
Even though it might cause pearl-clutching, there is nothing obscene about drag shows.
Unsurprisingly, numerous Russians don't want to be forced to fight in Vladimir Putin's pointless war.
A First Amendment framework for analyzing restrictions on election-related speech.
We’re likely to be poorer, distrustful, and less free for years to come.
Democrats and Republicans both demand solutions that are inconsistent with the First Amendment.
An indictment for a crime, the court stresses, is very different from a conviction of the crime.
An overview of state efforts to combat election misinformation.
It’s a terrible ruling that misunderstands years of First Amendment precedents. And it’s increasingly likely that the Supreme Court will have to intervene.
Although the federal government has largely stayed out of regulating the content of election-related speech, the states have been surprisingly active in passing laws that prohibit false statements associated with elections.
Jimmy Wales talks about why his online encyclopedia works, how to improve social media, and why Section 230 isn't the real problem with the internet.
They mandate occupation of private property without the consent of the owner.
Anti-royalists are facing fines and jail sentences for disrupting ceremonial events
Brittany Martin, who is pregnant, was sentenced to four years in prison after telling police they'd "better be ready to die for the blue. I'm ready to die for the black."
Yes, according to a growing body of research, says criminologist Adam Lankford.
The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.
The problem is the Court's ultra-broad interpretation of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. But the justices might cut that back.
While a new report highlights Mississippi's jailing of mentally ill people, the practice is common nationwide.
The senator's avowed devotion to federalism is no match for his political ambitions.
Plus: Court-ordered "care," railroad strike averted (for now), and more...
Under the new regulations, Title IX investigators can deny students access to the evidence against them.
"On information and belief, and as discovery will likely reveal, Green has been acting as a proxy for another performer who, mistakenly believing that she and Plaintiff are stars of equal stature, has repeatedly used other social media intermediaries in a hopeless effort to advance her career at Plaintiff’s expense."
Should an appellate court provisionally seal a brief until the case is heard on the merits? Or should it try to make a redacted version promptly available?
A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."
The Republican senator improbably claims his bill is authorized by the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause.
"This is inhumane," one child told state inspectors.
Politicians bypass hard legislative work and constitutional protections to target activities they don’t like.
Behind the scenes, federal officials pressure social media platforms to suppress disfavored speech.
When it comes to gender identity issues, some conservatives make a mockery of liberty and parental rights.
"The Court fails to see how the presence of a person recording a video near an officer interferes with the officer's activities," the judge wrote.