Threat Tok. The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a federal appeals court to uphold the potential ban on TikTok, arguing that the social media app is a “serious national-security threat.”
■ A federal judge has permanently shut down a significant piece of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act citing First Amendment violations pertaining to free speech.
■ Texas State has changed its campus free-speech policy as a way of defining antisemitism while complying with a mandate from Gov. Greg Abbott.
■ Former President Donald Trump’s vow to criminalize flag-burning is un-American, explained a scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in an MSNBC opinion piece.
■ An appeals case has raised the question: How much freedom of speech does a first-grade student have? Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, offered his perspective.
Cost of winning. The Denver-area web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling following her refusal to provide services for same-sex couples has asked a Colorado judge to award her $2 million to cover legal fees.
■ Elon Musk shared a manipulated video of Vice President Kamala Harris that is raising concerns about AI in politics.
■ A federal appeals court has dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law that restricts public drag shows.
■ Employees are now banned from posting political statements on college website home pages after a vote by the University of California Board of Regents.
■ The Associated Press examined questions about the Kids Online Safety Act, including whether it can pass, and whether it violates the First Amendment.
Eagle soars. When the nation’s biggest news story came to the small town of Butler, Pa., its local newspaper’s staff rose to the occasion.
■ Rupert Murdoch’s children are fighting a secret battle for the future of his media empire.
■ Donald Trump’s libel lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board can continue, a Florida state judge has ruled.
■ Fox News is “pleased” with a judge’s decision to dismiss a defamation suit brought by the head of the now-dissolved Disinformation Governance Board.
■ Journalists have continued to utilize the free legal hotline of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press when policymakers make veiled threats or block access to information.
Latest chapter. A new book-ban legal battle in Florida has both the prosecutors and the plaintiffs using protections of the First Amendment to make their cases.
■ NBC News has documented one law enforcement officer’s crusade to bring charges against school librarians in Texas over books he deemed obscene.
■ A new book has prompted an investigation into three unsolved Civil Rights-era bombings in Nashville.
■ A Massachusetts dad who recorded school officials and subsequently posted the interactions online has won his First Amendment appeal.
Shalt not yet. Louisiana public schools cannot display the Ten Commandments while the controversial new law to post them is being challenged in court, a U.S. district judge has ruled.
■ Constitutional scholar John R. Vile discussed First Amendment implications of Louisiana’s Ten Commandments mandate in public schools during an interview with the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ Memphis Shelby County Schools will pay more than $15,000 to settle a suit with The Satanic Temple over potential First Amendment violations pertaining to its After School Satan Club.
■ A small town in Colorado has a protected right to provide shelter to unhoused people on church property, a federal judge has decreed.
■ A federal judge has permanently shut down a significant piece of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act citing First Amendment violations pertaining to free speech.
■ Texas State has changed its campus free-speech policy as a way of defining antisemitism while complying with a mandate from Gov. Greg Abbott.
■ Former President Donald Trump’s vow to criminalize flag-burning is un-American, explained a scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in an MSNBC opinion piece.
■ An appeals case has raised the question: How much freedom of speech does a first-grade student have? Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, offered his perspective.
Cost of winning. The Denver-area web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling following her refusal to provide services for same-sex couples has asked a Colorado judge to award her $2 million to cover legal fees.
■ Elon Musk shared a manipulated video of Vice President Kamala Harris that is raising concerns about AI in politics.
■ A federal appeals court has dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law that restricts public drag shows.
■ Employees are now banned from posting political statements on college website home pages after a vote by the University of California Board of Regents.
■ The Associated Press examined questions about the Kids Online Safety Act, including whether it can pass, and whether it violates the First Amendment.
Eagle soars. When the nation’s biggest news story came to the small town of Butler, Pa., its local newspaper’s staff rose to the occasion.
■ Rupert Murdoch’s children are fighting a secret battle for the future of his media empire.
■ Donald Trump’s libel lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board can continue, a Florida state judge has ruled.
■ Fox News is “pleased” with a judge’s decision to dismiss a defamation suit brought by the head of the now-dissolved Disinformation Governance Board.
■ Journalists have continued to utilize the free legal hotline of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press when policymakers make veiled threats or block access to information.
Latest chapter. A new book-ban legal battle in Florida has both the prosecutors and the plaintiffs using protections of the First Amendment to make their cases.
■ NBC News has documented one law enforcement officer’s crusade to bring charges against school librarians in Texas over books he deemed obscene.
■ A new book has prompted an investigation into three unsolved Civil Rights-era bombings in Nashville.
■ A Massachusetts dad who recorded school officials and subsequently posted the interactions online has won his First Amendment appeal.
Shalt not yet. Louisiana public schools cannot display the Ten Commandments while the controversial new law to post them is being challenged in court, a U.S. district judge has ruled.
■ Constitutional scholar John R. Vile discussed First Amendment implications of Louisiana’s Ten Commandments mandate in public schools during an interview with the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ Memphis Shelby County Schools will pay more than $15,000 to settle a suit with The Satanic Temple over potential First Amendment violations pertaining to its After School Satan Club.
■ A small town in Colorado has a protected right to provide shelter to unhoused people on church property, a federal judge has decreed.