Free Speech
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UCLA Law backtracks after threatening conservative students if they ID protesters at DHS event
Administration apologizes "for any lack of clarity" that it "does not discipline students for speech that is protected under the First Amendment," after critic notes it didn't threaten protesters who identified conservatives to harass.
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Unanimous SCOTUS rebukes New Jersey for intimidating pro-life groups, ignoring precedents
Gorsuch-written opinion mocks former attorney general for arguing a "non-self-executing" subpoena for donor information is not a legal injury, comparing it to sword of Damocles. Ideologically disparate groups cheer ruling.
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Washington gender ideology mandate in foster care likely unconstitutional: judge
Biden judicial nominees in Pacific Northwest frustrate top-down efforts to mandate and inhibit gender ideology on impressionable children, ruling against Trump administration and Evergreen State days apart.
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School districts pay more than $200k for retaliation against criticism of LGBTQ policies: lawyers
District fired counselor for confirming secret gender transitions to journalist who already had evidence, while another blocked mom for protesting "Progress Pride" flag. SCOTUS-rebuked district accused of violating new precedent.
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Students ask SCOTUS to protect 'Let's Go Brandon' shirts, school backs off 'We ❤️ ICE' suspension
Lower courts confused how to interpret vulgarity exception to students' First Amendment rights, SCOTUS petition says. Legal threat expunges pro-ICE student's record at school that allowed crude anti-ICE posters, walkout.
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Déjà vu: Hunter Biden whistleblower documentary ads ‘suppressed’ by Big Tech, lawyers suggest
Haven't we seen this movie?: Shining a light on the Hunter Biden saga may yet still face more suppression by the Big Tech firms who rushed to block the truth in the run-up to the 2020 election. They succeeded.
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'Big freaking deal': Trump axes Biden censorship machine in 'unprecedented' consent decree
10-year agreement binds surgeon general, CDC, DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Feds agree not to stop Louisiana, Missouri and individual plaintiffs from seeking attorney's fees as "prevailing parties."
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Minnesota ban on election 'deepfakes' doesn't exempt parody, groups ask appeals court to clarify
The ruling against satirist "Mr Reagan" shows trend of courts "narrowing state law to avoid a constitutional conflict," in this case that "the law does not criminalize constitutional parody despite no written parody exception," brief says.
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Louisville pays Christian photographer $800,000 for law requiring her to do same-sex weddings
A court banned the city three years ago from "either compelling or suppressing Nelson’s photography and writing" under its public accommodations law, which is superseded by the First Amendment.
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From Detroit to Times Square, politicians seek to censor the wrong speech in the wrong place
Detroit passed "buffer zone" around abortion clinics after its lawyer botched SCOTUS precedent, suit says. New York bills would create "series of First Amendment dead zones," Gov. Hochul wants to ban protests that "alarm and annoy."
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Pro-lifers defeat abortion clinic 'buffer zone' law, as other municipal speech bans face lawsuits
Free speech group warns city about vague ban on pamphleting, library sued for banning religious group
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First Amendment protects elementary school students, appeals court says in 'All Lives Matter' case
With 9th Circuit ordering a trial in lawsuit against principal for allegedly punishing first-grader for giving classmate a drawing, appeals courts covering half the states now recognize First Amendment rights at young ages.
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'Kangaroo court' tribunal fines school board member $750,000 for opposing gender ideology
Human Rights Tribunal orders Barry Neufeld to pay LGBTQ-identified educators for "injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect," prompting petition by would-be Conservative leader. Gender-critical nurse kicked out of her union.