FBI Director Kash Patel pays lip service to the First and Second Amendments while casting suspicion on people who exercise their First or Second Amendment rights.
Although Bovino is gone, immigration officials will continue to disregard rights and the rule of law under President Donald Trump.
In the first social media addiction case to reach a jury, K.G.M. claims TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms are responsible for her depression, anxiety, and poor self esteem.
Agents seized devices and data but already had what they needed to prosecute the leaker.
"Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it's a Constitutionally protected God-given right," writes Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.).
The video is the latest example of federal immigration authorities labeling anyone who opposes them a "domestic terrorist."
After Google refused to take down a video of him, the Kentucky senator suggested upending the legal framework undergirding the internet for three decades.
The state requires carry permit holders to obtain advance permission before bringing firearms into businesses.
FIRE condemned the police visit: "This blatant overreach is offensive to the First Amendment."
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
The constitutionally anomalous status of broadcasting invites government meddling.
The incident raises more questions about federal agents' use-of-force policies and training.
It is hard to see how, since that question hinges on what happened the morning that an ICE agent shot her.
Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue, including the one covering Florida, has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.
Mayday.Health ads that direct people to an informational website about abortion access are deceptive advertising and must be banned, the state argues. That’s unconstitutional, counters Mayday.
Ten Frenchmen were given fines, jail time, and social media bans for accusing their first lady of being a pedophilic gay man.
In an interview with Reason, CNN's Scott Jennings recounts the conversation he had with the tech entrepreneur about his distaste for exorbitant government spending.
"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
Despite their general ignorance of constitutional law, bears pose a much less grave threat to your civil liberties than humans do.
Creeping authoritarianism in the European Union gets pushback from an administration that has its own rocky relationship with free speech.
Presidents, legislators, and police officers were desperate to blame anyone but themselves.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "videotaping" agents was violence—but Border Patrol brought a film crew to Chicago-area raids.
Remembering an important voice from the founding era.
The appeals court ruled that administrators violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment rights when they investigated and threatened to punish him for constitutionally protected speech.
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
Larry Bushart's lawyers argue that his arrest for constitutionally protected speech violated the First and Fourth amendments.
The administration doesn't want to win these cases. It wants to intimidate Americans who oppose its immigration policies.
This is Priscilla Villarreal’s second trip to the Supreme Court, which last year revived her First Amendment lawsuit.
But there's a silver lining—sort of.
The document remains remarkably resilient, even as Republicans and Democrats keep launching assaults on liberty.
In her 1962 essay "Have Gun, Will Nudge," Rand foresaw how government officials would seek to silence people they don't like.
What the controversy over a failing grade for a bad essay reveals about the true purpose of higher education.
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
The Trump administration is desperately trying to criminalize a video noting that service members have no obligation to follow unlawful orders.
The government treats anarchist zines as evidence of terrorism.
The president’s reaction to a supposedly "seditious" video illustrates his tendency to portray criticism of him as a crime.
"Drops in confidence across all political parties contributed to the record-levels of pessimism," writes the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
The president's authoritarian response to a video posted by six members of Congress, who he says "should be arrested and put on trial," validates their concerns.
The ruling comes as federal immigration agents leave Chicago for operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and New Orleans.
The president thinks TV networks have a legal obligation to cover him the way he prefers. The FCC's chairman seems to agree.
His lawsuit against the BBC is likely frivolous, however.
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.”
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