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 Madera County, California, federal authorities arrested former welfare benefits worker Leticia Mariscal for using her position to steal food…
When Skrmetti was decided, I was critical of Justice Barrett’s concurrence. She rehabilitated Footnote 4, gave credence to Justice Kennedy’s animus…
On Wednesday, the Court announced the opinion in Barrett v. United States. It would have been fitting if Justice Barrett wrote…
As we have been posting, on January 20, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez, where…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a pair of cases that ask whether state governments may…
The opinion by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (N.D. Cal.) in Musk v. Altman was just posted. Musk’s breach of charitable…
President Donald Trump’s push to seize Greenland might be the least popular idea in American political history. Is that hyperbole?…
I have written a few posts on Hecox, which I will come back to later. Here, I want to talk about…
The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, a pair of consolidated cases asking whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation…
“The middle class is shrinking” might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify…
From an order today by Magistrate Judge Philip Lammens in Loomer v. Maher (M.D. Fla.) (the underlying case is a…
Last week in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, who had…