Freedom IndexPolitics
Politics investigates how governments, parties, and policymakers shape the landscape of free speech and censorship. From campaign regulations to state restrictions, this category examines the role of politics in defining the boundaries of expression and democratic debate.
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted eight protestors on charges ranging from rioting to attempted murder after a…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter includes stories on: The Trump administration’s new…
I do a lot of legal history research in my academic work, often studying late 18th Century legal understandings and…
Can a “schoolyard dispute” warrant federal court intervention? Do first-graders have First Amendment rights? The U.S. Court of Appeals for…
From McCaffery v NYU School of Law, decided yesterday by Judge John Murphy (E.D. Pa.): This is a defamation case.…
From Toles v. Toles, decided yesterday by the Washington Court of Appeals (opinion by Judge Leonard Feldman, joined by Judges…
From today’s opinion in Doe v. Combs, by Second Circuit Judges Michael Park, William Nardini, and Maria Araújo Kahn, the…
Washington state has beaten California and New York in their race to soak the rich. On Thursday, the state Legislature…
History’s wrongest man. Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, died over the weekend. I think there’s…
From Magistrate Judge Stephanie Christensen (C.D. Cal.) in Creditors Adjustment Bureau, Inc. v. All Season Power LLC, decided Feb. 13…
According to President Donald Trump, two of the three justices that he himself appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court are…
The First Amendment states that the government “shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech.” But one prominent conservative judge,…