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.
Whenever a new petition is granted, I always check the counsel of record. I keep a running tally of how…
The recent leak of internal Supreme Court memoranda to the New York Times, discussed earlier by Jonathan Adler and Josh…
On March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Mirabelli v. Bonta. This emergency docket case ruled against California’s policy of secretly…
A federal judge held Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) likely violated the First…
Some excerpts from the Complaint in Patel v. Atlantic Monthly Group LLC (D.D.C.), filed today:Kashyap P. Patel, the Director of the…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the growing push on the left to “tax the rich,” highlighted…
On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic seeking $250 million in damages for an article…
Steve Sachs writes that Adam Liptak, a member of the New York Bar, may have transgressed certain rules of professional…
The hugely popular, politically eclectic podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, says he recently sent…
Over at Executive Functions, Jack Goldsmith offers a sharp critique of the way that the New York Times presented and spun…
In recent weeks, a growing number of Democrats and progressives have called on federal officials to invoke the 25th Amendment…
From Judge Kai Scott (E.D. Pa.) today in Bunce v. Visual Tech. Innovations, Inc.: … Plaintiff … sought reasonable travel…