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New York Times Reporters Are Subpoenaed After Air Force One Stories, Raising Press Freedom Concerns

Issuing subpoenas represents further ramping up of Trump’s effort to threaten independent new organizations by leveraging the power of the federal government against them.

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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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District Court Judge Blocks New Montana GOP Bylaws

The new bylaws require members to pay $20 in annual membership dues and pledge a loyalty oath, and subject members to removal from elected party positions for nonpayment of dues or for “conduct deemed inconsistent with party purposes,” as determined by executive party officers.

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News Outlets Urge a Judge To Sanction OpenAI in a High-Stakes AI Copyright Fight

At issue is whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing as an information source, siphoning off web traffic without doing the journalistic work involved in gathering the news.

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E. Jean Carroll walks outside Manhattan Federal Court, in New York City

Judge Orders E. Jean Carroll Be Paid $5.8M in Trump Sex Abuse and Defamation Case; Trump Appeals

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that says the money can be paid to Carroll, along with interest that has grown since the verdict.

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James Madison
[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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