The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents.
FIRE suggests laws to trim FCC power and protect free expression.
Brandenburg v. Ohio established the "imminent lawless action" standard. More than 50 years later, partisans keep trying to apply it selectively.
On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that echoed Donald Trump's claims against the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer.
Dr. Wolf von Laer and Sean Themea join Nick Gillespie to discuss how Kirk’s murder is reshaping student activism and where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.
“The evidence has been pretty strong that his facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility,” said U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman. “It has really become a prison.”
These lawmakers expect local authorities to ban "obscenity" before it happens—a recipe for chilling a wide variety of legal speech.
The former FBI director also argues that the charges against him are legally deficient and that the prosecutor who brought them was improperly appointed.
Remembering a monstrous era of American history
Aspects of Texas' READER Act meant to keep sexual content out of school libraries have been judged First Amendment violations.
The actions would violate a federal order imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis to limit the use of nonlethal weapons and other crowd control tactics.
That understanding of a familiar anti-Biden slogan hinges on the political message it communicates.
Sam O'Hara went viral for playing "The Imperial March" behind groups of National Guard soldiers in D.C. He also says it led to him being illegally detained.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power.
The former Trump administration official is facing a maximum of 180 years in prison.
Mainstream and conservative news outlets were correct to reject it.
The settlement, which followed Sylvia Gonzalez's victory at the Supreme Court, also includes remedial First Amendment training for city officials.
ACLU legal director Ben Wizner warns that Donald Trump’s war on dissent endangers the First Amendment, urges Americans to protect speech they dislike, and reflects on Edward Snowden’s enduring legacy.
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
Another entry into the "algorithms are magic" school of imposing liability on tech companies.
The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these doctrines?
The arrest comes less than a day after a federal judge ordered federal law enforcement to stop impeding reporters and protesters.
Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.
That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate.
“This is protected speech,” said the app’s creator. “We are determined to fight this with everything we have."
Thank goodness that judge struck down the legislation he supported.
Two bills recently introduced by Hawley would set American AI and the economy back.
Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes recounts her role in Murthy v. Missouri, her opposition to pandemic mandates, and why she believes Trump poses an even greater threat to free speech than Biden.
The decision is the most thorough in a line of recent court decisions reaching similar results.
The order lists "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity" as common threads among "domestic terrorists," though all are protected by the First Amendment.
Democrats are vowing to break up media companies that kowtowed to Trump if they take back power.
From the Fairness Doctrine to Nixon’s “raised eyebrow,” government licensing power has long chilled broadcast speech—proving the First Amendment should apply fully to the airwaves.
The Hendry County Sheriff accused Captains for Clean Water of "fuel[ing] hostility and provok[ng] violent rhetoric," but a free speech advocacy group says they were well within the First Amendment.
Plus: ICE helps arrest sex workers, the SIM farm "security threat," Waymo car crashes caused by human error, and more...
History suggests that Republicans will regret letting the FCC police TV programming.
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand explained exactly how the public interest standard would lead to censorship.
Under the law, transgender people writing about their gender identity online could face 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
The First Amendment still stands, but the culture that supports it is eroding.
Rand Paul concurs that the threats preceding the comedian's suspension were "absolutely inappropriate" because the agency has "no business weighing in on this."
And Trump's much more extreme one. [EV writes: I bumped this post from yesterday, because it struck me as especially timely and substantively valuable.]
Vice President J.D. Vance and Sen. Cynthia Lummis are among the latest conservatives to turn their backs on free speech when it comes to their ideological opponents.
The Trump Administration's recent abuses of the agency's powers lend weight to longstanding libertarian arguments for abolishing it, going back to Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 article.
What the Trump administration is doing to late-night comedy is clearly jawboning.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," the FCC chairman said, threatening to punish broadcasters for airing the comedian's show.
Plus: America's cocaine habit, how Charlie Kirk handled South Park, and more...
Plus: Pam Bondi flunks free speech 101.
