A real drag. In a
commentary for The Guardian, the CEO of Pen America called the breadth
of drag-show bans spreading across the country “staggering” and an attack on
free speech.
■ Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature generated the latest headlines about press freedoms by sponsoring a bill that could undo legal protections for journalists.
■ Republican presidential candidates and the Fox News defense team are on opposite sides of a 60-year-old landmark Supreme Court ruling.
■ A Connecticut man’s arrest for holding a sign warning drivers of a police checkpoint was a violation of his First Amendment rights, a federal appeals court ruled.
Tinker, tailor, TikTok spy? Fearing
that a Chinese social media platform is harvesting information about U.S.
citizens, a group of 12 senators pledged to create legislation to restrict or ban TikTok in this country.
■ Tucker Carlson “utterly failed” when he tried to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, a senior staff member of the House Select Committee contended in a Politico commentary.
■ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give away access to Jan. 6 insurrection footage was not only a security risk but a violation of the First Amendment, argued law professor Michael Meyerson in a recent commentary.
■ The Free Speech Center has laid out what the First Amendment really says about free speech.
Truth be told. Should Fox
News lose its defamation case, it could “hinder the ultimate objective of the
First Amendment – getting to the truth,” a member of its defense team told NPR.
■ Constitutional law professor Catherine Ross suggested that Fox has no First Amendment defense because the network “satisfied the actual malice standard” used in such cases.
■ FIRE has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to define First Amendment exceptions for “true threats” in criminal charges.
■ The author of ‘Campus Misinformation’ does a thoughtful job of documenting the nonexistence of the problem of restricted free speech on college campuses, contends Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson in a review of the book.
■ Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature generated the latest headlines about press freedoms by sponsoring a bill that could undo legal protections for journalists.
■ Republican presidential candidates and the Fox News defense team are on opposite sides of a 60-year-old landmark Supreme Court ruling.
■ A Connecticut man’s arrest for holding a sign warning drivers of a police checkpoint was a violation of his First Amendment rights, a federal appeals court ruled.
■ Tucker Carlson “utterly failed” when he tried to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, a senior staff member of the House Select Committee contended in a Politico commentary.
■ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give away access to Jan. 6 insurrection footage was not only a security risk but a violation of the First Amendment, argued law professor Michael Meyerson in a recent commentary.
■ The Free Speech Center has laid out what the First Amendment really says about free speech.
■ Constitutional law professor Catherine Ross suggested that Fox has no First Amendment defense because the network “satisfied the actual malice standard” used in such cases.
■ FIRE has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to define First Amendment exceptions for “true threats” in criminal charges.
■ The author of ‘Campus Misinformation’ does a thoughtful job of documenting the nonexistence of the problem of restricted free speech on college campuses, contends Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson in a review of the book.
■ A University of Pennsylvania professor’s alleged racist or xenophobic comments in conversations with students has stirred questions about academic tenure and free-speech protections.
Spit-take. Joe Rogan’s
newly opened anti-cancel culture comedy club is no laughing matter for some,
but a welcomed laughing matter for others, including Roseanne Barr.
■ A ‘Twitter Files’ debate got contentious at a recent hearing hosted by the bipartisan House Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.
■ New York City EMS workers settled their lawsuit after being punished for speaking to the news media during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indivisible? The parents of
a ninth-grade South Carolina honor student who was confronted by a teacher for
failing to stop and recite the Pledge of Allegiance have filed a federal
lawsuit.
■ Atheists got handed a win of sorts when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that concerns the group’s lawsuit over a 2014 public prayer vigil in Ocala, Fla.
■ West Virginia’s governor signed a religious-freedom law that was labeled a “license to discriminate” by LGBTQ+ rights advocates.
■ A ‘Twitter Files’ debate got contentious at a recent hearing hosted by the bipartisan House Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.
■ New York City EMS workers settled their lawsuit after being punished for speaking to the news media during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
■ Atheists got handed a win of sorts when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that concerns the group’s lawsuit over a 2014 public prayer vigil in Ocala, Fla.
■ West Virginia’s governor signed a religious-freedom law that was labeled a “license to discriminate” by LGBTQ+ rights advocates.
