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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DC Will Pay $50,000 To Man Detained While Protesting Guard Patrol With ‘Star Wars’ Song, Record Says

The plaintiff, Sam O’Hara, sued over what he says was his act of protest against President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C.

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Supreme Court Won’t Revive Alan Dershowitz’s $300 Million Suit Against CNN

The majority declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented, calling on the court to reconsider the legal standards for public figures who claim defamation.

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E. Jean Carroll enters Manhattan Federal Court, for jury selection in the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Push To Toss $5 Million Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse Case

Trump's attorneys framed the case as a distraction from Trump’s unique duties as president, though the verdict came before his return to the White House.

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Celebrating 250 Years of a Constitutionally Protected Press

The meaning of freedom of the press — and the legacy of the Virginia Declaration of Rights — is still being debated  today, 250 years later.

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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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