■ The latest White House travel ban undercuts free speech and restricts the flow of information and ideas, creative-expression groups have declared.
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Were First Amendment protections ignored in President Trump’s
decision to send troops to quell protests in California?
■ Trump has asked Congress to eliminate $1.1 billion earmarked for public broadcasting.
Gulf widens. The free-speech battle with the Trump administration produced an incremental loss for The Associated Press at the hands of the three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals.
■ The latest attempt by President Trump to block international students from attending Harvard University has been halted by a federal judge.
■ A report by The Intercept detailed how the Trump administration’s attempt to search Instagram accounts of Columbia University student protesters was blocked by federal judges on First Amendment grounds.
■ Americans expressed concern that government efforts to regulate artificial intelligence may lead to limits on free speech, according to poll results from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).
No redress. A Massachusetts student’s “Only two genders” T-shirt appeal has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Supreme Court justices sided with a Wisconsin Catholic charity in a religious-rights tax case.
■ Federal agencies cannot punish Catholic health-care providers that refuse for religious reasons to assist transgender patients, a federal judge has ruled.
■ Four states have used the First Amendment right of petition to get the Food and Drug Administration to lift its restrictions on abortion pills.
Backfired. President Trump’s retribution crusade against Harvard University, law firms, and others, is ironically being thwarted in large part by a 2024 NRA First Amendment decision.
■ Florida’s ban on social media accounts for young children has been delayed by a federal judge.
■ A push by Texas lawmakers to ban social media for those under 18 failed to become law before the state legislative session ended.
■ A University of California-San Francisco professor has sued the university, alleging that her 2024 suspension over Gaza comments she made online violated her First Amendment rights.
Win some, lose some. It is much more than bad luck that makes some hometown newspapers disappear, a university researcher found.
■ A Pentagon reporter for One America News discovered there were limits to expressing her opinions.
Gulf widens. The free-speech battle with the Trump administration produced an incremental loss for The Associated Press at the hands of the three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals.
■ The latest attempt by President Trump to block international students from attending Harvard University has been halted by a federal judge.
■ A report by The Intercept detailed how the Trump administration’s attempt to search Instagram accounts of Columbia University student protesters was blocked by federal judges on First Amendment grounds.
■ Americans expressed concern that government efforts to regulate artificial intelligence may lead to limits on free speech, according to poll results from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).
No redress. A Massachusetts student’s “Only two genders” T-shirt appeal has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Supreme Court justices sided with a Wisconsin Catholic charity in a religious-rights tax case.
■ Federal agencies cannot punish Catholic health-care providers that refuse for religious reasons to assist transgender patients, a federal judge has ruled.
■ Four states have used the First Amendment right of petition to get the Food and Drug Administration to lift its restrictions on abortion pills.
Backfired. President Trump’s retribution crusade against Harvard University, law firms, and others, is ironically being thwarted in large part by a 2024 NRA First Amendment decision.
■ Florida’s ban on social media accounts for young children has been delayed by a federal judge.
■ A push by Texas lawmakers to ban social media for those under 18 failed to become law before the state legislative session ended.
■ A University of California-San Francisco professor has sued the university, alleging that her 2024 suspension over Gaza comments she made online violated her First Amendment rights.
Win some, lose some. It is much more than bad luck that makes some hometown newspapers disappear, a university researcher found.
■ A Pentagon reporter for One America News discovered there were limits to expressing her opinions.
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ABC News has suspended news correspondent Terry Moran following
online comments where he called Trump official Stephen Miller a
“world-class hater.”
