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Human Rights Groups Sue Over Trump Administration’s Sanctions on ICC for Investigations Into Israel

The organizations say in a lawsuit filed July 15 that they have been forced to censor their own advocacy work to avoid scrutiny from the White House.

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Subpoenas Issued to NY Times Reporters Seen as ‘Unprecedented’ Threat To Press Freedom

Reaction in the media world has been swift and severe to the issue of subpoenas to five New York Times journalists who reported on security questions involving the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One.

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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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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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[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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