■ The Trump administration has been blocked from firing Voice of America staff by a federal judge.
■ A Republican congresswoman told CBS News that a Voice of America shutdown would cede international airwaves to foreign dictators.
■ Led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican lawmakers targeted “biased” PBS and NPR at congressional hearing.
■ Lawyers for The Associated Press have urged a federal judge to reinstate the news agency’s access to the White House press pool.
Whisked away. In Donald Trump’s America anyone seemingly can be nabbed off the street and vanish simply for writing an opinion piece, reasoned reporter Jonah Valdez in The Intercept.
■ A Tufts University doctoral student was seized by masked officers and flown 1,500 miles away to an ICE Processing Center.
■ A 21-year-old lawful permanent resident has sued the Trump administration in an effort to avoid deportation.
■ The Trump administration has proposed the vetting of social media profiles of green-card applicants who already are living in the United States.
Book ‘em. Texas lawmakers want to impose criminal penalties on schoolteachers and librarians who provide literature to students deemed to contain sexually explicit content.
■ In a Politico Q&A, a national security insider explained the “insane” Signal chat leak in which a journalist was added to a war-plans group.
■ The North Dakota ruling in a rural county courtroom against Greenpeace in the Standing Rock case is a threat to free speech, argued directors for Greenpeace and the ACLU in an opinion piece in The Guardian.
■ The interim president of Columbia University has resigned days after she announced the overhaul of campus rules for protests and student discipline.
Beliefs system. An Oklahoma push to teach religion in public schools could undo the longtime understanding of the separation of church and state.
■ Led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican lawmakers targeted “biased” PBS and NPR at congressional hearing.
■ Lawyers for The Associated Press have urged a federal judge to reinstate the news agency’s access to the White House press pool.
Whisked away. In Donald Trump’s America anyone seemingly can be nabbed off the street and vanish simply for writing an opinion piece, reasoned reporter Jonah Valdez in The Intercept.
■ A Tufts University doctoral student was seized by masked officers and flown 1,500 miles away to an ICE Processing Center.
■ A 21-year-old lawful permanent resident has sued the Trump administration in an effort to avoid deportation.
■ The Trump administration has proposed the vetting of social media profiles of green-card applicants who already are living in the United States.
Book ‘em. Texas lawmakers want to impose criminal penalties on schoolteachers and librarians who provide literature to students deemed to contain sexually explicit content.
■ In a Politico Q&A, a national security insider explained the “insane” Signal chat leak in which a journalist was added to a war-plans group.
■ The North Dakota ruling in a rural county courtroom against Greenpeace in the Standing Rock case is a threat to free speech, argued directors for Greenpeace and the ACLU in an opinion piece in The Guardian.
■ The interim president of Columbia University has resigned days after she announced the overhaul of campus rules for protests and student discipline.
Beliefs system. An Oklahoma push to teach religion in public schools could undo the longtime understanding of the separation of church and state.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments about whether Wisconsin violated First Amendment religious protections by denying tax exemptions for religiously affiliated groups.
■ A federal appeals court has heard arguments in a free-speech lawsuit that challenges an Ohio school district policy on gender pronouns.
■ Students at Texas A&M University sued to keep an annual on-campus drag show and were victorious.
■ Students at Texas A&M University sued to keep an annual on-campus drag show and were victorious.
En garde. Media-misinformation rating firm NewsGuard has a defamation suit levied against it thrown out by a U.S. district judge.
■ A former meteorologist who was the victim of deepfakes has backed a Tennessee bill to criminalize the AI-generated files.
■ Comedian Amber Ruffin, who has lampooned Washington politics, has been removed from the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner along with all comedic performances.
■ Max Frankel, the former New York Times executive editor who spent nearly a half-century with the newspaper, has died.
■ The founder and editor of Mother Jones magazine, Jeffrey Bruce Klein, is dead at age 77.
