Killer riffs. “If you don’t believe in freedom of speech for those people you don’t agree with, you don’t believe in freedom of speech at all,” rapper Killer Mike tells TV audience, extolling the importance of free speech and the power of voting.
■ Free-speech controversies on campus are prompting
judges to boycott Yale law students from clerkships.
■ Furman University is investigating one of its professors who says he was exercising free speech when attending 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
■ A commentary examines why Jewish groups failed to defend Yeshiva University in its battle between religious freedom and gay rights.
■ Furman University is investigating one of its professors who says he was exercising free speech when attending 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
■ A commentary examines why Jewish groups failed to defend Yeshiva University in its battle between religious freedom and gay rights.
■ Antisemitic posts by Kanye West (legally
known as Ye) get him locked out of his Twitter, Instagram accounts.
Letting her f*** flag fly. A
New Jersey woman defies a local obscenity order and takes her First Amendment right to display "F-Biden" banners to court.
■ Federal jury rejects Tennessee teacher’s free-speech claims after his profanity-laced social media posts led to his suspension.
■ U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases this session that attempt to hold social media companies financially liable for terrorist attacks.
■ An Oregon BLM protester, shot in the eye with rubber bullets fired by police, wins $1 million lawsuit.
No joke. The Onion,
an online satirical news site, gets serious with the Supreme Court in defense of parody.
■ While newsprint itself may be passé, the “news” must be embraced now more than ever, writes Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson.
■ American activist Chelsea Manning pens a guest essay for The New York Times on the “two conflicting realities” that prompted the leaking of secret military documents.
■ Federal jury rejects Tennessee teacher’s free-speech claims after his profanity-laced social media posts led to his suspension.
■ U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases this session that attempt to hold social media companies financially liable for terrorist attacks.
■ An Oregon BLM protester, shot in the eye with rubber bullets fired by police, wins $1 million lawsuit.
■ While newsprint itself may be passé, the “news” must be embraced now more than ever, writes Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson.
■ American activist Chelsea Manning pens a guest essay for The New York Times on the “two conflicting realities” that prompted the leaking of secret military documents.
■ “Lessons in Liberty” provides classroom
resources for learning about the importance of First Amendment freedoms.
■ Las Vegas reporter’s killing creates a new challenge to Nevada shield law.
■ Judd family wins latest round in court to keep police records of country star Naomi Judd’s death investigation private.
■ Jonathan Turley maintains in his USA Today opinion piece that a Musk-owned Twitter could be a win for free speech.
■ A Jacksonville, Fla., pastor, who was silenced during an invocation at a city council meeting, has had his free-speech lawsuit rejected a second time.
■ John R. Vile, dean of MTSU's Honors College, explores how U.S. Constitution framers avoided mentioning God in the document but why public leaders now reference God constantly.
