'Unprecedented campaign to punish': First Amendment advocacy group sues Trump administration over 'denial' of FOIA request

Amendment advocacy group is suing the Trump administration to try and force the government to release details about the deals ...
Click2Houston

Texas Republicans are redefining higher ed. It’s creating confusion about free speech on campuses.

Some students and professors say recent changes and scandals chill speech at universities. Others argue that conservative ...
Moneylife

How the Data Law Killed RTI: Exempting ‘Journalistic Purpose’ Threatens Freedom of Expression

This is the first of a two-part article by former central information commissioner Dr Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu, examining ...
thederrick.com

Colorado lawsuit challenges legal basis of many ICE arrests of immigrants this year

The much-publicized detention of a University of Utah student by immigration authorities in western Colorado in June was part of a wave of allegedly warrantless and illegal arrests ...
USA Today

Free speech is facing threats in the US and beyond. Here are the pressure points

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...
The Conversation

Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution – and added in later via the First Amendment

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...
Houston Chronicle

'Totally unreasonable and too controlling': Attacks on free speech have gone too far | Opinion

Last week, I asked if you thought if the crackdown on free speech has gone too far. Here are your responses, lightly edited for length and clarity. Lindmuth Fuller, Harris County: To me, free speech ...
Salon

Hollywood fights back again, Jane Fonda revives Committee for the First Amendment

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free-expression coalition originally formed by Hollywood stars in 1947 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee and the ...
The Denver Post

U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

LATEST: In Colorado case, Supreme Court skeptical about bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ kids A Colorado case going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could set nationwide precedent for ...
Washington Examiner

Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’

Oscar-winning actress and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative that was launched in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” ...
The New York Times

Jane Fonda Revives Her Father’s McCarthy-Era Free Speech Group

The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s. By Matt ...
Colorado Public Radio

Colorado attorney general says Tina Peters’ First Amendment appeals claims are wrong

The Colorado Attorney General’s office has formally responded to claims from former Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters that the state court is trying to keep her from speaking out on election ...