Civil civics? In real time
in Nashville, the nation watched as free speech was silenced, then amplified,
in the Tennessee General Assembly as two young lawmakers were expelled.
■ Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson told the Washington Post that the “Tennessee Three” incident is an example of how of legislative supermajorities can undercut free expression in America.
■ Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson told the Washington Post that the “Tennessee Three” incident is an example of how of legislative supermajorities can undercut free expression in America.
■ The Tennessee GOP worked harder to maintain
decorum than the First Amendment, declared journalist and author Chris Williams
in an Above the Law critique.
■ There is “a massive gap between protesting speech and silencing it,” opined a Times Union columnist after a campus mob shouted down a conservative speaker in Albany, N.Y.
■ What is being lost on college campuses is not free speech, it is the art of listening, asserted Pamela Paul in The New York Times.
Nobody wins. The Fox News defamation case is a lose-lose situation for the First Amendment, a University of Miami law professor declared in a Daily Beast commentary.
■ A ban on TikTok will unleash a major battle between the First Amendment and national security, journalist Alison Frankel declared in her Reuters commentary.
■ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to gut free-speech protections with a sword that cuts both ways, potentially wounding conservative news outlets.
Shhh! The judge in Donald Trump’s New York arraignment hearing did not impose a gag order, saying it is “among the most serious and least intolerable on First Amendment rights.”
■ PEN America called the disruption of activist and athlete Riley Gaines’ speaking event at San Francisco State University a “mockery of the principles of free speech.”
■ There is “a massive gap between protesting speech and silencing it,” opined a Times Union columnist after a campus mob shouted down a conservative speaker in Albany, N.Y.
■ What is being lost on college campuses is not free speech, it is the art of listening, asserted Pamela Paul in The New York Times.
Nobody wins. The Fox News defamation case is a lose-lose situation for the First Amendment, a University of Miami law professor declared in a Daily Beast commentary.
■ A ban on TikTok will unleash a major battle between the First Amendment and national security, journalist Alison Frankel declared in her Reuters commentary.
■ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to gut free-speech protections with a sword that cuts both ways, potentially wounding conservative news outlets.
Shhh! The judge in Donald Trump’s New York arraignment hearing did not impose a gag order, saying it is “among the most serious and least intolerable on First Amendment rights.”
■ PEN America called the disruption of activist and athlete Riley Gaines’ speaking event at San Francisco State University a “mockery of the principles of free speech.”
■ Law schools can restore free speech on
campuses by teaching it, contended J.D. candidate Charles Brandt in a
commentary for The Orange County Register.
High steaks. Using 1791
cheesesteaks (the year the First Amendment was ratified), the Foundation for
Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) fed lucky Philadelphians and gave them
a taste of the Bill of Rights.
■ The Nebraska High School Press Association, along with a former high school journalist, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that First Amendment rights were violated when the school district shuttered a campus newspaper after an LGBTQ edition was published.
■ School district officials in Indiana did not violate a former teacher’s rights when it urged his resignation over the refusal to use transgender students’ preferred pronouns, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
■ The Nebraska High School Press Association, along with a former high school journalist, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that First Amendment rights were violated when the school district shuttered a campus newspaper after an LGBTQ edition was published.
■ School district officials in Indiana did not violate a former teacher’s rights when it urged his resignation over the refusal to use transgender students’ preferred pronouns, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
■ Moscow detained a Wall Street Journal
reporter on espionage charges, the first such accusations since the Cold War, as
appeals to release him continue.
Meme vs. them. After posting what the Connecticut Department of Correction considered to be an anti-Muslim meme, a fired prison guard has been reinstated as an arbitrator ruled the termination was an excessive response.
■ U.S. senators have continued to push for legislation that would help news organizations get compensated for content on social media sites.
■ Tennessee’s drag-show law was blocked by a federal judge only hours before it was set to take effect.
Book smarts. As book bans
continue across the country, U.S. teachers and librarians are utilizing new methods for distributing works to young readers who want them.
■ A federal judge in Texas ruled that some books removed from public libraries must be put back on the shelves.
■ Another bill seeking to ban library materials deemed “harmful to minors” created sharp debates in the Indiana Statehouse.
■ The 45 words of the First Amendment were “liturgy” to the late Tennessee judge Gilbert S. Merritt, according to a new biography.
■ A federal judge in Texas ruled that some books removed from public libraries must be put back on the shelves.
■ Another bill seeking to ban library materials deemed “harmful to minors” created sharp debates in the Indiana Statehouse.
■ The 45 words of the First Amendment were “liturgy” to the late Tennessee judge Gilbert S. Merritt, according to a new biography.
