Tag: first amendment

Laura Beltz, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education What’s the most common type of speech code in FIRE’s Spotlight database? The answer might surprise you. It’s...

Health Coach Plans to Appeal Decision to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals MATT POWERS, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Pensacola, Fl.—In a blow to entrepreneurs across the Sunshine...

JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ For over two decades the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has been at the forefront of advancing and defending the...

Vegan food company Upton's Naturals and the Plant Based Food Association fight for First Amendment right to use terms consumers understand ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR...

JOSEPH NICOLOSI JR., THE DAILY SIGNAL On Amazon, you can buy almost any book written throughout human history—from the Bible to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,”...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The ACLJ is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review and pop the anti-speech bubbles the City of Chicago has enacted to...

JOHN A. SPARKS, THE INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM Among recent actions by the U.S. Supreme Court, a four-sentence order may set the stage for the court...

JOHN SAMPLES, CATO INSTITUTE The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court’s ruling that Donald Trump may not block Americans from...

Walter M. Weber, ACLJ The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) just filed a friend of the court brief in a civil tort case addressing the...

Free Speech Without Teeth EAGLE FORUM As families across the nation are celebrating the United States’ independence, some are bracing themselves for the contentious topic of...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL BOSTON, MA – Liberty Counsel has asked a federal district court to forgo a trial and order the city of Boston to allow...

BY BOB BARR There was a time when America’s big city mayors were real leaders. While few of them we so arrogant as to claim...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a victory for Sweet Cakes Bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, today the U.S. Supreme Court sent their case...

Lawsuit seeks to stop Mandan, North Dakota, from removing mural CONOR BECK, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Last fall, August “Augie” Kersten, co-owner of the Lonesome Dove saloon...

LIBERTY COUNSEL BOSTON, MA – Liberty Counsel will present oral argument tomorrow in a federal court of appeals against the city of Boston and one...

LIBERTY ALERTS, THE FIRE.ORG On Monday, the Trinity College Student Government Association announced that it had voted — after weeks of delays, meetings, and public forums —...

CAPITOL HILL REPORT, EAGLE FORUM President Trump has never bowed down to political correctness. In fact, it was one of the reasons why he won...

LIBERTY COUNSEL SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Twitter has finally distanced itself from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the implosion regarding the ongoing sexual...

LIBERTY COUNSEL TRENTON, NJ – Liberty Counsel will refile King v. Murphy in the New Jersey lower court and work this case back up to the...

LIBERTY COUNSEL State taxpayer dollars are funding Ohio State University (OSU) Office of Cooperative Extension’s coopting the mission of the Ohio 4-H program to promote LGBT...

ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Harrisburg, Pa.—A federal judge in Pennsylvania denied the Food and Drug Administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit about whether additive-free...

BY BOB BARR Every day, I thank America’s Founding Fathers for their prescience in providing a Bill of Rights to protect against the government arbitrarily...

It's the enviro-fascists versus free speech and science BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I wrote in my previous column that environmentalists are exploiting the climate-change issue to promote an...

ANDREW WIMER, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE Arlington, Va.—Captain Matthew Hight was on the verge of getting his license to pilot commercial vessels on the St. Lawrence...

LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL SACRAMENTO, CA -- California State Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel has proposed a bill that would violate the First Amendment by forcing every...

TAKE ACTION, HERITAGE FOUNDATION In January, House Democrats introduced their signature piece of legislation, H.R. 1, the “For The People Act.” H.R. 1 is full of unconstitutional...

LIBERTY ALERTS, EAGLE FORUM TAKE ACTION Congress Will Not Silence Us! Congress will vote this week on a very dangerous bill. The For the People Act (H.R. 1) actually...

ILYA SHAPIRO and PATRICK MORAN, CATO INSTITUTE Barronelle Stutzman owns and operates Arlene’s Flowers, where she designs floral arrangements for a variety of occasions, including...

LIBERTY COUNSEL BROOKLYN, NY – New York Attorney General Letitia James has abandoned on appeal attempts to censor the Christian and pro-life speech of Liberty Counsel’s client...

JOHN SAMPLES, CATO INSTITUTE Facebook has set out a draft charter for an “Oversight Board for Content Decisions.” This document represents the first concrete step yet toward...