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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Supreme Court Won’t Block Texas From Enforcing a Law Requiring Age Verification for App Downloads

Plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material.

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New York Resident Sues ICE on Free Speech Grounds Over Critical Email Sent to Its Former Head

In the email, Streever called Lyons “a monstrous human being” who “will never know peace.” He said the agency violated his First Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed Monday in Washington D.C.

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Judge Orders Pentagon To Lift Policy That Journalists Be Accompanied by an Escort

It was not immediately clear whether the order applied only to reporters from The New York Times, which filed the lawsuit, or to the entire press corps.

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Challengers Score Victories in Lawsuit Against Arkansas’ Restrictions on Citizen Ballot Initiatives

The judge threw out a handful of state laws that put extra restrictions on citizen efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives, agreeing with challengers that they violated the constitutional free speech rights of voters.

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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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