Intelligence officials sue to end pre-publication government review of writings
Two civil liberties groups today sued three U.S. intelligence chiefs and the current acting defense secretary, “seeking to have declared unconstitutional their agencies’ pre-publication reviews of...
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At the Madeira Municipal Building in Ohio, a high school student's artwork depicting a pig in a police uniform was taken down by the organizers of an annual student art show. In the artwork, the pig...
View ArticleFederal Court: Kentucky discriminated by disallowing "IM GOD" license plate
In 2016, Bennie L. Hart applied for a vanity license plate emblazoned with "IM GOD." The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet refused to issue the plate, apparently because it was related to religion. With...
View ArticleGeorgia school principal suspended the student who posted video of crowded...
A whistleblowing student at a Georgia high school was suspended after he posted a video of fellow students crammed into a hallway between classes, many of them without masks. After he was suspended,...
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Libertarian social media site Parler asks government to force private...
Conservative social media haven Parler has been dropped from most online services, including Amazon Web Services, which hosted the site. According to The Hill, the Libertarian-founded company has...
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After being investigated for his blog post, Cory Doctorow sent this FOIA...
Last week an FBI special agent rang up Cory Doctorow and told him he had questions about a blog post Cory had written in July about a Popular Mechanics article on the physics of toppling statues....
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The fascinating free speech history of American license plates
You know how US states have "official birds" and "official trees" and other arbitrary "official [insert thing]" accolades, which are mostly just meaningless marketing tactics? As the podcast 99%...
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Yoga no longer banned in Alabama schools, but "namaste" is
After a failed attempt to overturn Alabama's nearly three-decade ban on yoga in public schools, the state legislature has finally gotten over their moral panic and agreed to lift the ruling. But...
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Assailed for muzzling professors, University of Florida will now permit them...
The University of Florida, a publicly-funded college, ordered three of its professors not to give expert testimony at a hearing that might embarass Florida governor Ron DeSantis. After it was reminded...
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Arizona legislators approve ban on filming police
Arizona's Republican-majority legislature took one look at the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin and set out to make sure it could never happen there: accordingly, it's approved...
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Clarence Thomas wants to make it easier to sue the media for defamation
Clarence Thomas, who became a Supreme Court Justice despite being credibly accused of sexual harassment, has recently made it clear on at least two occasions that he wants to remove well-established...
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Pete Buttigieg makes short work of Fox News reporter who tried to entrap him...
If you're going to go on Fox, this is how you do it.pic.twitter.com/1HpakCVmUH— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 10, 2022 A Fox News reporter tried to corner Transportation Secretary Pete...
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Middle-school Satanists club can't be banned, rules judge
Schools in Saucon Valley, Pennsylvania can't ban After School Satan Clubs, a judge ruled. The school district tried to stop the meetings from taking place, citing safety concerns after someone called...
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ALL THE GUNS" in public seating of Tennessee legislature, says state's attorney general">No first amendment right to hold 8×11-inch signs saying "1 KID > ALL THE...
Tennessee's attorney general has determined that protestors in the Tennessee House have no free speech right to hold up letter-size signs calling for gun reform or anything else, an outcome convenient...
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Federal lawsuit filed against Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper
Police raided a smalltown newspaper in Kansas over fears it was about to report the police chief's alleged sex-pest past and a politically-connected restauranteur's drunk-driving conviction. This...
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Judge rules Texas's age-verification law violates First Amendment, in win for...
A Texas law requiring adult websites to verify users' age and compelling them to post anti-porn warnings is "unconstitutional on tis face," a federal judge ruled Thursday, handing a legal win to...
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Florida Nazi arrested
A Florida man who draped Nazi banners from an interstate highway overpass was arrested Tuesday and charged with what Daytona Beach News described as "displaying messages without obtaining permission."...
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Federal judge strikes down Texas's ban on drag shows
Texas banned drag shows, but a Federal judge struck down the law Wednesday because drag shows are protected expression under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In a 56-page ruling, duuuuuuh....
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Supreme Court declines to "open up our Libel law"
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to revisit libel standards Tuesday, leaving the law as it stands after 1964's New York Times v. Sullivan: public figures have to prove intentional lying or reckless...
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Man arrested twice for criticizing police sues Iowa town for violating his...
A young man named Noah Petersen is suing the town of Newton, Iowa for violating several of his constitutional rights after being arrested twice for criticizing the small town's police, reports Reason,...
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NYPD ordered to stop illegally telling people they can't film inside precinct...
The NYPD told a YouTuber and "First amendment auditor", SeanPaul Reyes, that he was not permitted to film in the public areas of precinct stations, then arrested him when he refused to stop doing so....
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Supreme Court rules Florida can't enforce drag ban for now
Florida will have to wait to enforce its ban on drag shows thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, which stayed the state from implementing the law until its appeal against a lower court ruling is heard....
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"I already have his spot picked out in the DC gulag"— Trump's potential...
Trump's and Musk's lawsuits against media organizations yesterday are just a taste of what will become of the First Amendment if Trump is elected President of the United States in 2025. Mike Davis, a...
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Gaetz accuses Washington Post of inciting Trump's Assassination
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz says The Washington Post is "obviously green-lighting assassination" of Donald Trump after the newspaper ran an opinion piece about the dire consequences of a second Trump...
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GOP Senator calls for criminal action against journalist over MAGA...
If you want a taste of what freedom of the press will look like under a MAGA dictatorship, look no further than GOP Sen. Jack Vance's demand that the Justice Department launch a criminal investigation...
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Los Angeles Police issue warning about "possible first amendment activity"
On Thursday, December 7, the Los Angeles Police Department took to The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter to issue a warning to the city's residents: The LAPD is aware of possible first...
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California calls it "false advertising," but Tesla claims "free speech"
In another fantastic argument to defend Tesla's "Autopilot," litigious pedo guy Elon Musk claims California can't regulate false advertising because it violates his free speech. The California...
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Conservatives upset by After School Satan Club's horrifying plan to teach...
The After School Satan Club planned at the Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee, casts Satan "as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and...
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Justice Alito thinks bigots belong on juries
Justice Samuel Alito believes the First Amendment gives bigots the right to serve on juries. Supreme something or other, Justice Alito protested the court's refusal to take up a case wherein people...
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Supreme Court rejects MAGA teen's defamation lawsuit
In 2019, a viral video captured an encounter between Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, and Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, at the...
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