Register Now for the 2024 National First Amendment Summit

Co-hosted by FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch, the National Constitution Center’s 2024 First Amendment Summit convenes America’s leading thinkers for a vigorous discussion of the state of free speech in America and around the globe.

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Leading First Amendment Experts on The Most Pressing Free Speech Challenges

Scholars, journalists, and legal advocates will tackle some of the most urgent issues around freedom of expression at the National Constitution Center on Tuesday.

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

11 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Are Arrested After Occupying Building at University of Minnesota

The university said that once inside the building, protesters covered lenses of internal security cameras with spray paint, broke some interior windows, and barricaded entrances and exits.

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Central Park Five Sue Donald Trump for Jogger Case Remarks Made at Presidential Debate

“Defendant Trump falsely stated that plaintiffs killed an individual and pled guilty to the crime. These statements are demonstrably false,” the federal complaint states.

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Protests continue at Columbia University in New York during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas

GW Law Professor Catherine Ross on Campus Speech and Free Expression

Ross weighs the pros and cons of institutional neutrality and stresses the importance of having well-crafted rules in place before demonstrations begin.

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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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