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Back-to-School Basics: Public Schools Are Not Sunday Schools Sep. 11, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
As public school students return to classrooms for the new school year, some could face an unexpecte... Read More
How Mastercard Is Endangering Sex Workers Sep. 04, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Back in 2021, Mastercard developed a new policy for adult content websites using its credit card or ... Read More
A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy: A Federal Judge Compared Waylon Bailey's Facebook Jest to 'Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theatre' Aug. 30, 2023
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon... Read More
A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy: A Federal Judge Compared Waylon Bailey's Facebook Jest to 'Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theatre' Aug. 30, 2023
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff's deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon... Read More
We Can't Tolerate Assaults on Free Speech Aug. 22, 2023
Emancipation of slaves. Women's suffrage. Civil rights. Freedom to worship, ignore or denigrate God.... Read More
When the First Amendment Dies Aug. 17, 2023
When the freedom of speech and of the press die, it will happen by a thousand small cuts. Last Frida... Read More
Raid of Kansas Newspaper Is a Chilling Example of What America Must Not Become Aug. 16, 2023
If there has been one overarching theme to the tumultuous politics of this era, it is the repeated r... Read More
Curbing Your Rights, Canceling Your Tax Cuts Aug. 14, 2023
Colorado's Legislature can't seem to get past its contempt for the citizens initiative. That's the p... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 11, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
A St. Louis Case Raises the Trumpian Question of When Speech Becomes Criminal Aug. 09, 2023
That Omali Yeshitela holds what most Americans would consider some radical political views is beyond... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 09, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
Arkansas Wants To Unconstitutionally 'Card' People Before They Use Social Media Aug. 07, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
From banning books to restricting classroom discussions about race and gender, politicians across th... Read More
Government and the Freedom of Speech Aug. 03, 2023
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." — First Amendment to the U.S... Read More
A Religious Public Charter School in Oklahoma? Not on Our Watch. Jul. 31, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
A religious school can't be a public school, and a public school can't be religious. These fundament... Read More
Informal Censorship Is Worse Than Book Burning -- And It's Here Jul. 20, 2023
Suppose the president of the United States voices concern over media concentration. The president pr... Read More
Biden Trashes the US Constitution to Muzzle Critics Jul. 12, 2023
President Joe Biden has played his cards: all bluff, no aces. Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit a... Read More
Corporations Are Evolving With the Times. Their Former Republican Allies Aren't. Jul. 12, 2023
Remember when Republicans would boldly stand up to any attempts to tell capitalists how to run their... Read More
Online Lies Need To Be Confronted, but Government Involvement Is Problematic Jul. 11, 2023
A federal judge's order last week effectively barring the federal government from coordinating with ... Read More
St. Charles Controversy Shows What a Slippery Slope Now Threatens Libraries Jun. 28, 2023
The culture wars came to St. Charles with a vengeance this week. Tuesday's raucous meeting of the St... Read More
Core First Amendment Rights Are Implicated in This Supreme Court Case About True Threats Jun. 12, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The internet is full of strong, impassioned, sometimes offensive language. In response to an activis... Read More
