A new video guide spells out First Amendment rights to those recording police actions with cellphones. The presentation is made possible through the joint efforts of The Free Speech Center and First Amendment Watch, and can be viewed here or on the partners’ websites.
Tik season. Does the Montana state ban on TikTok, the nation’s first, protect its people or violate their First Amendment rights?
■ A CNN analysis has looked at how a TikTok ban could work, as well as other concerns about social media.
■ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed to disqualify the judge in Disney’s First Amendment lawsuit against his state.
■ The Middleboro, Mass., middle-schooler who gained attention last month for wearing an “only two genders” shirt alters the style and is sent home again by school officials.
■ A CNN analysis has looked at how a TikTok ban could work, as well as other concerns about social media.
■ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed to disqualify the judge in Disney’s First Amendment lawsuit against his state.
■ The Middleboro, Mass., middle-schooler who gained attention last month for wearing an “only two genders” shirt alters the style and is sent home again by school officials.
Both sides now. When it comes to free speech, the right and the left need to rediscover it as a unifying, nonpartisan principle, a constitutional law professor explained.
■ PEN America, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting free speech, has teamed with parents and a publishing company to sue a Florida school district for implementing book bans.
■ If you care about book bans, you should be following the Escambia County lawsuit, Michelle Goldberg opined in The New York Times.
■ Student civil rights in Georgia may have been violated by book removals, the U.S. Education Department contends following its investigation.
■ If you care about book bans, you should be following the Escambia County lawsuit, Michelle Goldberg opined in The New York Times.
■ Student civil rights in Georgia may have been violated by book removals, the U.S. Education Department contends following its investigation.
■ Wisconsin college campuses have become staging grounds for free-speech and racial-equity battles.
Fair game. An award-winning journalist has some strong ideas for how journalists should cover candidate Donald Trump’s campaign and shares them in a recent commentary.
■ Freedom of the Press Foundation advocacy director has examined why he sounds like “a sore winner” after an anti-press restraining order is struck down.
■ West Virginia has adopted the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act, the 17th state to grant First Amendment rights to journalism students and their faculty advisers.
■ “Freedom of expression has not in my lifetime been under such threat,” declared author Salman Rushdie in a surprise public appearance, just months after he was attacked.
■ West Virginia has adopted the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act, the 17th state to grant First Amendment rights to journalism students and their faculty advisers.
■ “Freedom of expression has not in my lifetime been under such threat,” declared author Salman Rushdie in a surprise public appearance, just months after he was attacked.
Not so dandy, Andy. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the late artist Andy Warhol in a “fair use” argument over a Vanity Fair magazine cover.
■ Supreme Court justices handed Google, Twitter, and Facebook legal victories, but left liability-shield questions for internet companies unanswered.
■ With protests continuing outside the high court justices’ homes, several Republican senators want to increase penalties for violating the U.S. Code for “picketing and parading.”
■ Supreme Court justices handed Google, Twitter, and Facebook legal victories, but left liability-shield questions for internet companies unanswered.
■ With protests continuing outside the high court justices’ homes, several Republican senators want to increase penalties for violating the U.S. Code for “picketing and parading.”
■ “The greatest intrusion on civil liberties in peacetime history” is how Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch labeled the nation’s pandemic response.
■ An Arizona activist group has settled its lawsuit over reported voter intimidation at state ballot drop boxes.
■ A Tennessee deputy was not at fault for failing to stop a quid pro quo traffic-stop baptism, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
■ Former journalist, civil-rights activist, and U.S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III is remembered for never missing “an opportunity to speak truth to power.”
■ Former journalist, civil-rights activist, and U.S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III is remembered for never missing “an opportunity to speak truth to power.”
