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.
The episode opens with Christian Britschgi joking about hiding out in a church from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the…
An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope play in…
So Magistrate Judge Maria Aguilera (D. Ariz.) correctly concluded today in Sanchez v. Flores: [A]s alleged, the statement was nonactionable…
[UPDATE: I have changed the post below, as it was pointed out to me that the key opinion in Lucas…
The saga of Judge Pauline Newman is well known. For three years, the Federal Circuit has not assigned any new…
From Judge Patti B. Saris (D. Mass.) today in Steiner v. eBay Inc.: The parties have submitted a multitude of objections…
NA Yesterday, the en banc US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in W.M.M. v. Trump,…
Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer’s…
From the N.Y. Times (Stephanie Saul) last week: Less than a week after naming a new dean, the University of…
For three decades, Albuquerque defense attorney Thomas Clear bribed police officers to make drunk driving cases against his clients disappear.…
From an Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley, which I’ll be cross-posting over the next couple…
In this final installment of our series on religious employment under Title VII, we address common objections to the textualist…