First Amendment
9th Circuit Rules on Student Speech
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.” The student, with the…
The federal government’s crusade against Anthropic raises First Amendment concerns
Vendors have the right to do business with whoever they please, and to put conditions on the purchase of their goods and services. Buyers have a matching right to choose among vendors, and to enter only deals that serve their…
Rubio Crackdown on Foreign Censorship Triggers Lawsuit
A tech group that has received funding from left-leaning nonprofits is suing the Trump administration over the threatened deportation or revocation of visas for noncitizens the State Department identified as trying to censor…
Is Don Lemon a Terrorist?
Last August, two women stalked an Immigration Customs Enforcement agent near Los Angeles and then streamed themselves at his house, yelling to locals that their neighbor was an agent. Last month, they were convicted and face…
Florida bill would allow surveillance based on ‘views’ or ‘opinions’
A bill that was advancing in the Florida Legislature as of last week would authorize government surveillance of people whose "views" or "opinions" are deemed "a threat" to state or national…
The Cities Church case expands
This past week a federal Minnesota grand jury handed up a 19-page superseding indictment naming 30 additional defendants in the Cities Church riot of January 18. I have uploaded a PDF of the superseding indictment to Scribd…
39 Charged, 25 Arrested in Cities Church Invasion Case
A total of 39 people now face charges in the anti-ICE invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul last month, according to a superseding indictment that the federal district court unsealed Friday. “YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF…
Iowa officials arrested this guy for criticizing them—twice. A federal judge says they are liable.
As Noah Petersen saw it, he was exercising his freedom of speech when he criticized the Newton, Iowa, police department during the public comment period at a city council meeting. But according to Mayor Michael Hansen and…
Don Lemon may be a hack, but that does not make him a felon
Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor who was arrested on federal civil rights charges last week, portrays his conduct during the January 18 protest that disrupted services at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, as purely…
Don Lemon Wants Journalist to Have Immunity
Does former CNN host-turned-independent journalist Don Lemon have a First Amendment right to interfere with the First Amendment rights of the worshipers and a pastor at a church? “I think the question answers itself, and the…
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