■ Donald Trump tested the limits of the First Amendment during a gag-order hearing where a three-judge panel now will consider how to balance the former president’s free-speech rights against the need to prevent intimidation tactics.
■ Prohibiting the display of an altered American flag with a single “thin blue line” stripe is unconstitutional, a federal court has declared.
■ A California woman has asked Supreme Court justices to sound off on whether her ticket for honking her car horn violated her First Amendment rights.
■ The American Bar Association has moved forward with a proposal to establish free-speech policies at its accredited law schools.
Acts of war. Gaza war images that are difficult for news organizations to show become more troubling when some of them are found to be fake.
■ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denied that shutting down pro-Palestinian groups on state campuses violated free speech.
■ The ACLU declared that Gov. DeSantis is violating the First Amendment rights of Florida students.
■ The Las Vegas Review-Journal artist whose editorial cartoon on Hamas was pulled from The Washington Post stands by both his work and his critics in a self-penned commentary.
■ U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin explained the importance of defending colleague Rashida Tlaib against censure in an opinion piece for The Nation.
Vanishing ink. Local newspapers seem to be going the way of the pay phone and the fight for survival is vital for maintaining an informed democracy, wrote Ronald Collins for the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) newsletter.
■ In refusing to divulge sources, a former Fox News journalist could be held in contempt of court.
■ Fox Sports reporter Charissa Thompson admitted to fabricating quotes and in-game reports but has faced no reprimands to date.
■ Judge Andrew Napolitano explored the question, ‘What happened to freedom of speech in America?’ in a recent commentary.
Ctrl + shift. OpenAI’s board of directors cited a “breakdown of communications” in its ouster of CEO Sam Altman, who is seen by many as the face of the tech industry’s artificial intelligence boom and who was quickly hired by Microsoft.
■ Atlanta rapper Young Thug’s lyrics can be used as evidence against him in a gang and racketeering trial, a Fulton County judge has ruled.
■ More than 100 Harvard faculty members expressed concerns over the state of free speech on campus in an open letter to the university administration.
■ More than 100 Harvard faculty members expressed concerns over the state of free speech on campus in an open letter to the university administration.
■ The ACLU has demanded that a Kansas school district’s dress-code policy that forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his long hair be rescinded.
Assange alliance. Rival lawmakers find common ground in urging President Biden to halt the extradition and prosecution of the besieged WikiLeaks founder.
■ After a quiet first 150 years, the American Library Association now is embedded on the frontlines of ‘‘woke’’ wars as it battles against censorship and book bans.
■ A NewsNation journalist has filed a lawsuit over his arrest at an Ohio train-derailment press conference.
■ A radio reporter arrested while covering a demonstration where two sheriff’s deputies were shot has received a $700,000 settlement from Los Angeles County.
■ A radio reporter arrested while covering a demonstration where two sheriff’s deputies were shot has received a $700,000 settlement from Los Angeles County.