Introducing The SLAPP Back Initiative
First Amendment Watch is building the first national database of alleged SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation — potentially meritless or malicious legal actions that can financially cripple and ultimately silence critical voices.
Oklahoma University Instructor on Leave After Failing Bible-Based Essay on Gender
Since Trump took office, student affinity groups have shuttered campus offices and professors have altered curriculums.
New York Times Suing Pentagon Over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s New Press Rules
Outlets like The Times walked out of the Pentagon rather than agree to the rules as a condition for getting a press credential.
Supreme Court Likely To Rule in Favor of Abortion Opponents in Challenge To State Investigation
Many Democratic-aligned states have sought to protect abortion access and some have investigated whether pregnancy centers mislead women into thinking they offer abortions.
2 Conservative Operatives Get Probation for Robocalls To Discourage Black Detroit Voters in 2020
They pleaded no contest to voter intimidation, conspiracy and computer crimes after a long, unsuccessful effort to challenge the charges on free speech grounds.
Experts Doubt the Pentagon Can Punish Kelly Over the ‘Illegal Orders’ Video
The investigation was announced after President Trump’s social media post accusing Kelly — and the five other Democratic lawmakers in the video — of sedition “punishable by DEATH.”