Pay attention to what's happening in this case: the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just essentially ruled that it's fully legal to jail journalists for reporting leaked information, or any information they obtain from government officials without going through "proper channels."
The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.
If Freedom of Religion amd Freedom of Speech means a tax exempt fascist terrorist sect wants to enslave and silence women, time to repeal the First Amendment
Last Monday, @foodwpb & community partners protested the City Commission’s ongoing repression against sharing food and the 7 citations issued so far @fau_sol@palmbeachdsa@greenbackdistro
Supreme Court will decide on First Amendment protections for social media.
The court has the opportunity to reexamine the nature of content moderation and the constitutional limitations of the government regarding speech on platforms such as Facebook, X, TikTok, and Instagram.
DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used “insurrection” clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech....
I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.
Quotes from #DeSantis' book "support the company’s central allegation: that the #Republican governor improperly wielded state power to punish Disney’s speech criticizing his policies, violating the #FirstAmendment.
“We are up against a bunch of rich people who don’t want to see #homeless people anywhere near their stuff.”
Volunteers with #Houston Food Not Bombs are going to court to fight an anti-food sharing ordinance which they say violates their First Amendment rights, reports Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher in our latest article: https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-food-not-bombs-trial/
🥥 Here are your jack-booted authoritarian thugs on steroids.
Small-town Kansas police department seizes computers and other equipment from a newspaper that had reported on them.
Raided the paper's offices and the editor's home in a glaring violation of the #FirstAmendment.
FBI? ACLU? Anybody paying attention? 🥥 https://journa.host/
Florida interprets it ban on DEI initiatives as " apply[ing] to all campus programs and activities in which the college or university “endorses or promotes a position” on “topics that polarize or divide society among political, ideological, moral, or religious beliefs, positions, or norms.”" https://newrepublic.com/article/176402/desantiss-war-woke-colleges-absurd-dangerous
It is hard to overstate how unconstitutional this is.
[News] Trump argues First Amendment protects him from 'insurrection' cases aimed at keeping him off ballot (apnews.com)
DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used “insurrection” clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech....