Legal Scholar Robert George on Institutional Neutrality, Campus Discourse and Fruitful Disagreement

First Amendment Watch spoke with legal scholar and political philosopher Robert George about free speech in college classrooms and talking across differences.

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Another New York Resident Says He Was Warned by Officers After Criticizing ICE

Free speech advocates have pointed to the incidents as an example of federal law enforcement infringing on privacy and free expression.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Party Spending in Federal Elections, Backing Republican Appeal

Justice Kavanaugh wrote: “In short, constitutional text, history and precedent establish that the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits violate the First Amendment."

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Judges Strike Down Trump Administration’s Overhaul of Student Loan Forgiveness Program

The overhaul targeted nonprofits and government organizations that support causes at odds with the Trump administration’s priorities.

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Blake Lively Wants $8 Million in Legal Fees From Justin Baldoni After ‘It Ends With Us’ Dispute

The judge cited a California law designed to protect survivors of sexual harassment and discrimination from retaliatory lawsuits meant to intimidate and silence victims.

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[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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