Defending Student Deportations, Marco Rubio Equates Writing an Anti-Israel Op-Ed With Starting a Riot
The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking.
The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking.
"We're looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up," Rubio said in a Thursday press conference.
The self-styled watchdog site ranks news outlets' reliability, which has rankled those on both the right and left.
Conservatives are picking up the unconstitutional weapons that intolerant progressives have deployed against them.
As a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry said the provision is unconstitutionally vague. That's especially problematic when it is used to punish speech.
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
The Trump administration keeps arresting legal immigrants with views they don't like.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
The Trump administration has started a pattern of trying to deport legal residents over allegations of pro-terrorist views.
The attempt to retaliate against a cinema for screening a documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict drew national condemnation from civil rights groups and filmmakers.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish emphasizes that religious freedom must protect "unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups" as well as "popular or familiar ones."
The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.
Passengers suing the TSA for First Amendment violations have had a rough time in court.
The bill is a "law against criticism of any kind," according to a lawyer who testified against it.
The commission’s partisan “news distortion” probe is trampling the First Amendment to pressure the press.
The government's stated justification for deporting him is so unconvincing that it must not be allowed to stand.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner says "disseminating antisemitism" in a taxpayer-owned building is "unjust to the values of our city and residents and should not be tolerated."
At least not if the goal is keeping minors from viewing porn.
The 9th Circuit revived a First Amendment lawsuit by Lars Jensen, who says his community college punished him for complaining about dumbed-down courses.
Plus: Ukraine attacks Russia with drones, Newsom's revisionist history, and more...
President Donald Trump has begun kicking immigrant “Hamas sympathizers” out of the U.S.
Several months ago, Reason interviewed Mahmoud Khalil at a protest encampment. Now he’s sitting in ICE detention.
A highly significant grant of certiorari for next term.
The law school's dean rejected the letter, arguing the First Amendment "guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it."
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
A proposed bill in 2021 would have put the HHS secretary in charge of censoring COVID-19 contrarianism on social media.
Texas A&M's Board of Regents voted to ban drag shows on the grounds that they objectify women and violate state and federal policies against promoting "gender ideology."
The department insists its directive will not suppress First Amendment rights.
Justice Thomas dissents from the Court's refusal to resolve a clear circuit split.
Carr advocates greater control over social media by federal regulators, despite a reputation for supporting free speech.
Most courts have ruled that vanity license plates are private speech and protected from viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment.
The authors of a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick together argue excluding their book from school libraries violates their free speech rights.
After a lawsuit from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the city backed down. But it's still part of a worrying trend.
Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s assault on "Big Tech censorship" aims to override editorial decisions protected by the First Amendment.
The president's portrayal of journalism he does not like as consumer fraud is legally frivolous and blatantly unconstitutional.
Is Florida forgetting that the First Amendment applies there too?
"It's shameful that government officials would use the criminal legal process to censor art and expression."
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson hypocritically engages in the very partisanship for which he faults the American Bar Association.
Free speech experts say the takedown order is a clear example of unconstitutional prior restraint under the First Amendment.
Kirk Wolff set out to peacefully protest Trump's plan to take over Gaza. Then an administrator and a police officer drove by.
Law enforcement acts better when officers know the public is watching.
Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.
Conway, New Hampshire, is trying to make a local bakery take down a mural of colorful baked goods. The bakery says that violates its First Amendment rights.
A dust-up over geographical nomenclature is silly, but it signals the Trump administration's hostility to the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
To settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, you must swear silence.
Generative AI is a powerful tool for creativity and speech. Efforts to censor, regulate, and control it threaten America's tradition of open discourse.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
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