■ If the question is ‘Can Congress ban TikTok?’ then Judge Andrew Napolitano offered an answer in a recent guest commentary.
■ Federal prosecutors are pursuing a deal to avoid a First Amendment showdown over WikiLeaks, reported Reason’s Matthew Petti.
■ Graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes do not violate the First Amendment, a judicial panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
Under the influence. A conservative social-media influencer and fervent Donald Trump supporter was arrested for her involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
■ College students are not ardent supporters of free speech, survey data collected by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression suggests.
■ Supreme Court justices refused to intervene in the dispute over a blocked drag show on a Texas university campus.
■ The women’s basketball coach at LSU has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post over an unpublished story she labeled a “hit piece.”
Post marks. The U.S. Supreme Court seemed to side with the Biden administration over efforts to combat questionable social media posts.
■ Supreme Court justices appeared receptive to the National Rifle Association’s free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state official.
■ A small-town Texas ex-council member has brought her First Amendment-related retaliation claim before the Supreme Court.
■ A federal judge in California has rejected a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against a hate-speech watchdog group.
Kate restraint. British tabloids took a rare, reserved approach in the news frenzy over the Princess of Wales’s health, but it did not slow the flow of wild speculation.
Kate restraint. British tabloids took a rare, reserved approach in the news frenzy over the Princess of Wales’s health, but it did not slow the flow of wild speculation.
■ Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press” fame blasted NBC for its decision to hire former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst.
■ A new publisher has allowed Sports Illustrated operations to continue print and digital products.■ Gannett and McClatchy news chains announced they would cease using content by The Associated Press, a service used for decades.
■ Jon Stewart has returned to The Daily Show to push professional journalists to get Americans closer to the truth.
■ Jon Stewart has returned to The Daily Show to push professional journalists to get Americans closer to the truth.
Devil in the details? Satanic Temple representatives filed a lawsuit against Memphis-Shelby County Schools for blocking an afterschool club, labeling it a violation of the organization’s First Amendment rights.
■ Lawmakers in mostly conservative states have called for greater efforts to place chaplains in U.S. public schools.
■ Wendell Bird contends in a new book that most First Amendment freedoms received greater impetus from religiously motivated individuals than from philosophical thinkers, according to a review by Middle Tennessee State University political science professor John R. Vile.
■ The board chair at Middle Tennessee State University has pushed legislation to close official meetings for dealing with “sensitive” matters.
■ Lawmakers in mostly conservative states have called for greater efforts to place chaplains in U.S. public schools.
■ Wendell Bird contends in a new book that most First Amendment freedoms received greater impetus from religiously motivated individuals than from philosophical thinkers, according to a review by Middle Tennessee State University political science professor John R. Vile.
■ The board chair at Middle Tennessee State University has pushed legislation to close official meetings for dealing with “sensitive” matters.