Introducing The SLAPP Back Initiative

First Amendment Watch is building the first national database of alleged SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation — potentially meritless or malicious legal actions that can financially cripple and ultimately silence critical voices.

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US Attorney General Pam Bondi Announces 2 More Arrests in the St. Paul Church Protest

In a social media post Monday, Bondi named the latest two arrestees as Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson.

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Don Lemon Says a Dozen Agents Were Sent To Arrest Him Even Though He Offered To Turn Himself In

A grand jury indicted Lemon and others on charges of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshippers.

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Texas A&M University To End Women’s Studies Due to New Policy on Race and Gender Topics

Texas A&M said the decision to end the women’s and gender studies program was based in part on limited student interest in the program.

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Undercover Investigation of Meta Heads to Trial in New Mexico in First Stand-Alone Case by State

It could give states a new legal pathway to go after social media companies over how their platforms affect children, by using consumer protection and nuisance laws.

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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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