■ Donald Trump’s “piggy” insult is stoking more outrage than usual, wrote Rachel Leingang in analysis published in The Guardian.
■ The Oval Office media access fight between Trump and The Associated Press is being argued in a federal appeals court.
Order up. A federal judge ruled that a UFO-inspired burger stand mural in Salina, Kan., is protected under the First Amendment.
■ Attempts to hang the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools have created a clash of beliefs among parents, teachers, and students.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a religious-liberty dispute over the broadcasting of a pregame prayer through a stadium loudspeaker at a Christian school in Florida. It left intact the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals finding that the state High School Athletic Association’s use of the speaker constituted government speech and that the school’s rights were not violated.
■ The executive editor of The Associated Press explained in an editorial why the news organization is standing up for every American’s right to speak freely.
Order up. A federal judge ruled that a UFO-inspired burger stand mural in Salina, Kan., is protected under the First Amendment.
■ Attempts to hang the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools have created a clash of beliefs among parents, teachers, and students.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a religious-liberty dispute over the broadcasting of a pregame prayer through a stadium loudspeaker at a Christian school in Florida. It left intact the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals finding that the state High School Athletic Association’s use of the speaker constituted government speech and that the school’s rights were not violated.
■ NPR has settled its legal dispute with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for $36 million after it accused the CPB of bowing to pressure from President Trump to cut off its funding.
■ A California climate-related financial reporting law that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce claimed violated companies’ First Amendment rights was paused by a U.S. appeals court.
NYC’s new AOC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has quickly become the top target of conservative media, and the attacks are drawing comparisons to Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
■ The MAGA-sphere had trouble processing the Mamdani-Trump White House meeting on podcasts and social media feeds.
NYC’s new AOC. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has quickly become the top target of conservative media, and the attacks are drawing comparisons to Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
■ The MAGA-sphere had trouble processing the Mamdani-Trump White House meeting on podcasts and social media feeds.
■ Federal prosecutors now want to make it illegal to possess anarchist magazines and pamphlets, declared the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s director of advocacy in The Intercept.
■ The undermining of public libraries by Tennessee’s secretary of state is misguided and unnecessary, contended Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
Worth what? Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, and other actions against more than 600 people who believed they were exercising their First Amendment rights.
■ Florida officials have defended taking action against public employees for comments in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing.
■ Authorities in Tennessee have dropped a felony charge against a man who was jailed for more than a month for a Facebook post.
Worth what? Two months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, and other actions against more than 600 people who believed they were exercising their First Amendment rights.
■ Florida officials have defended taking action against public employees for comments in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing.
■ Authorities in Tennessee have dropped a felony charge against a man who was jailed for more than a month for a Facebook post.
■ A University of Virginia professor examined in The Conversation how free-speech protections collided with paranoia over communist infiltration during the Red Scare.
Getting chummy. Jeffrey Epstein emails have shed new light on the delicate relationship between reporters and their sources, the Associated Press reported.
Getting chummy. Jeffrey Epstein emails have shed new light on the delicate relationship between reporters and their sources, the Associated Press reported.
■ A Kansas small-town newspaper that was subjected to a controversial raid by law enforcement officers in 2023 has received an apology and a $3 million judgment.
■ Freelance journalists and protesters have sued the Trump administration claiming federal officers’ use of force at a Portland, Ore., rally violated their First Amendment rights.
■ Covering the activities of ICE agents in Los Angeles has meant huge risks for independent reporters, according to the Los Angeles Public Press.
■ Covering the activities of ICE agents in Los Angeles has meant huge risks for independent reporters, according to the Los Angeles Public Press.
