2 Controversies Over Political Rhetoric Illustrate the Perils of Blaming Gun Control Critics for Murder
That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate.
That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate.
Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
The decision is the most thorough in a line of recent court decisions reaching similar results.
Writer Freddie deBoer discusses the assassination of Charlie Kirk and his theory of "spectacular acts of public violence" on the final episode of Just Asking Questions.
My two recent pieces in Chronicle of Higher Education
When universities are global institutions, the global speech environment matters.
Once a left-wing fetish, the heckler’s veto has gained conservative adherents.
Obviously drag shows are protected by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment protects everybody from the government, whether citizen or not.
Universities’ internal culture wars threaten free speech and inquiry, but political attacks on research funding and infrastructure are crippling U.S. scientific leadership.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is seeking an injunction that would protect noncitizens at The Stanford Daily from arrest and removal because of their published work.
The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.
The government's gaslighting strategy suggests that federal officials are not confident about the constitutionality of punishing students for expressing anti-Israel views.
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The case settled while motions for summary judgment were pending; the plaintiff, Prof. Timothy Jackson, had prevailed against an earlier motion to dismiss, and the Fifth Circuit had also rejected defendants' appeal as to procedural matters.
The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights
The Trump administration continues its war against disfavored speech.
Marco Rubio’s nebulous invocation of foreign policy interests is bound to have a chilling impact on freedom of speech, which is the whole point.
"[W]hatever harm she claims, it is not imminent, irreparable harm. Her damages, if any, are monetary damages."
"[P]ublic condemnations, op-eds, and official complaints ... through proxies are independent constitutional violations" if the officials "engaged in conduct that was motivated by the plaintiff's protected speech and had the requisite chilling effect on First Amendment activity."
A federal judge didn't buy the Trump administration's claims about why it was keeping Khalil in an federal immigration detention center.
A bill awaiting the governor's signature represents a stark reversal from a 2019 law aimed at promoting "uninhibited debate."
U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz highlights the chilling impact of Marco Rubio's dubious rationale for deporting students whose views offend him.
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
The fight against anti-Semitism is undermined when it is conflated with mere criticism of Israel's government.
Signaling legislative contempt, one sponsor called the student groups "sex clubs." But in targeting the content of student speech the bill probably infringes First Amendment free speech rights and tramples the Equal Access Act of 1984
Under new State Department guidance, having private or no social media presence "may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question [a student visa] applicant's credibility."
though the court found the plaintiffs had standing to bring the claim, and gave them one last chance to amend their complaint to plausibly allege enough to allow the case to go forward.
Marco Rubio has announced a plan to deny visas to foreigners who censor Americans.