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.
In a precedent-setting verdict this week, a Los Angeles jury held Meta and YouTube responsible for addicting a young woman…
From yesterday’s decision by Magistrate Judge Jacqueline M. DeLuca (D. Neb.) in Wilson v. Noshirvan: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure…
From Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.) yesterday in Does 1 & 2 v. Patel: Plaintiffs are two former Federal Bureau…
This week, President Donald Trump called on Congress to reauthorize a provision of federal law that allows the government to…
An excerpt from yesterday’s decision by Judge Edward Davila (N.D. Cal.) in U.S. v. Holmes:On November 1, 2023, after the…
Bills moving through the Minnesota Legislature this session would create a state right to sue law enforcement officers and other…
A federal judge blocked the government from banning Anthropic from federal contracting on Thursday. The ruling confirms what the Defense…
In March 2022, a rule was finalized requiring all federally permitted lobster vessels in 10 East Coast states to install…
This is the case in which the Connecticut Supreme Court held that an accuser’s allegations in college disciplinary proceedings are…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to raise taxes on nicotine pouches like Zyn is facing staunch pushback from New…
If you ask the Trump administration, the war in Iran is going as well as anyone could have hoped. The…
The unpopularity of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies will be a problem for Republicans in this year’s midterm elections—and a…