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Apr 25 2024
News
Columbia’s protest response rebuked by all sides over free speech and public safety concerns
Columbia University‘s pro-Palestinian protests and campus occupation have drawn criticism from virtually all sides for the school’s inadequate response to both its free speech and public safety responsibilities. Led by the 116-member coalition group Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” has maintained its occupation of part of campus for more than a week.
Washington ExaminerJan 11 2024
Opinion
Pro-Palestinian Speech Is Still Free Speech
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unfolding half a world away, yet virtually no other political issue inspires as much acrimony among U.S. college students. After the terrorist group Hamas killed approximately 1,200 Israeli civilians on October 7, Israeli forces responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, killing thousands of Palestinians. In response, American college campuses witnessed a surge of
ReasonApr 18 2024
News
National Lawyers Guild stands by claim protesting at Berkeley dean’s house is free speech
Berkeley dean responds: ‘No First Amendment right to use my house or yours for speech’ The National Lawyers Guild is defending a pro-Palestinian student’s assertions she exercised her First Amendment rights when she interrupted a private dinner party at the home of University of California at Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky last week. The student, Malak Afaneh, stood up and began
The College FixMar 28 2024
News
Trump seeks to dismiss Georgia charges claiming free speech
ATLANTA — An attorney for Donald Trump pressed the judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case to dismiss charges against the former president, arguing that Trump’s statements challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, even if they were false, were protected political speech under the First Amendment. In a Thursday court hearing, Steve Sadow, an attorney for Trump,
Washington PostApr 18 2024
News
Kate Coleman, Free Speech Movement veteran who wrote courageous exposés, dies at 81
At some point Coleman, a senior English lit major from Encino, left her sandwich station to investigate the contents of a file cabinet that had been liberated in the course of the all-day, all-night occupation. The documents therein revealed that administrators were involved in some sneaky agribusiness deals that exposed a level of hypocrisy Coleman could not abide. She got arrested and jailed
San Francisco ChronicleApr 11 2024
News
Sen Ernst cites Jewish student discrimination in bid to protect free speech on campuses
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is looking to crack down on universities that receive federal funding but discriminate against students based on viewpoint in a new attempt to protect free speech on college campuses. The Iowa Republican will introduce a new bill on Thursday, the Students Bill of Rights Act of 2024, which would safeguard free speech on public campuses. 'EXPECT NPR TO
Fox News (Online News)Mar 19 2024
News
Justices indicate their interest in NRA’s suit over free speech
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its free-speech rights by pressuring banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The NRA is suing former New York State Department of Financial Services superintendent Maria Vullo, who the
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteApr 04 2024
News
New York’s ban on pot ads struck down as violation of free speech
New York’s struggling legal pot industry has been thrown into turmoil yet again after a judge issued a ruling striking down state rules banning cannabis advertising and marketing as a violation of commerce and free speech. The same Albany judge, Kevin Bryant, last summer struck down other Cannabis Control Board rules as illegal for providing convicted potheads preference in obtaining licenses
New York Post (News)Apr 04 2024
News
Judge rejects Trump free speech challenge to Georgia 2020 election case
A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to dismiss criminal charges in the state's 2020 election interference case against him, which the Republican former U.S. president argued violate his free speech rights.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee found that the indictment alleges statements by Trump and 14 others charged in the case were made "in furtherance
ReutersApr 04 2024
News
Journal of Free Speech Law: "Lies and the Law and Introduction," by Prof. Genevieve Lakier
The article is here; the opening paragraphs: We live in an era of profound anxiety about the threat that lies, and false speech more generally, pose to American democracy. It's not hard to understand why. Lies saturate the political realm. George Santos lied his way into office. Donald J. Trump lied his way through his tenure as president and is gearing up to lie his way back into power.
Reason