A coalition of pro-Palestinian University of Michigan students and supporters protest in the street

ACLU of Michigan’s Ramis Wadood on Its Lawsuit Against University of Michigan

In an interview Wadood described the university’s alleged First Amendment violations and explained how the university’s policies sweep up constitutionally protected speech.

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Columbia University students stage a walk-out protest condemning ICE agensts on campus and for release of Mahmoud Khalil in New York

Government Asks That Detained Columbia Student’s Legal Fight Be Moved to New Jersey or Louisiana

His lawyers argued that he engaged in protected free speech and that the government is illegally retaliating against him over it.

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Rally in support of Palestinians amid the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in New York

White House Pressures Columbia University as It Seeks To Deport Pro-Palestinian Activists

Columbia had been given names and was refusing to help the Department of Homeland Security “to identify those individuals on campus.”

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Court hearing following the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, in Manhattan, New York City

Trump Campaigned as a Protector of Free Speech. Critics Say His Actions as President Threaten It

But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in Trump’s second term.

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Pro-Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol

Trump Organization Sues Capital One for Closing Bank Accounts After Jan. 6 Attack

The Trump Organization claims the decision by Capital One to close the accounts was an attack on free speech and free enterprise.

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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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