Protest organizers could face criminal charges under proposed Louisiana law
Bill expands crime of obstructing roadway
By Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator - April 16, 2024Bill expands crime of obstructing roadway
By Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator - April 16, 2024‘If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,’ wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. ‘But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.’
By Associated Press - August 21, 2022The lawsuit calls a ban on political activity in college campus buildings a ‘surgical attack’ against youth participation in elections.
By Emily Singer - October 12, 2021Republican Sen. James Lankford has previously railed against ‘cancel culture.’
By Josh Israel - July 21, 2021Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for reelection as ‘conservative, stalwart leader with a deep passion and respect for our U.S. Constitution.’
By Josh Israel - July 12, 2021After complaining about the censorship of ideas, six House Republicans want to amend the Constitution to do just that.
By Josh Israel - June 15, 2021Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump for repeatedly violating its terms of service.
By Oliver Willis - April 22, 2021Ron Johnson is the latest Republican to equate tech companies restricting posted content with government censorship of conservative views.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2021If confirmed, Barrett would be asked to make rulings based on the U.S. Constitution, including the First Amendment.
By Oliver Willis - October 14, 2020The federal government argued that journalists must disperse when an illegal assembly is declared.
By Associated Press - July 24, 2020‘When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,’ Donald Trump says.
By Associated Press - May 30, 2020Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order targeting the companies on Thursday after Twitter fact-checked an incorrect tweet he posted earlier in the week.
By Josh Israel - May 28, 2020The Trump campaign suing the Washington Post and the New York Times, even though the newspapers were just stating facts.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2020Trump lost his appeal to a ruling ordering him to unblock people from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account.
By Emily Singer - July 09, 2019Sarah Huckabee Sanders instituted new rules that effectively deem the entire White House press corps unqualified to possess permanent press passes.
By Emily Singer - May 09, 2019A Homeland Security official leaked evidence of the secret program to track people who covered and worked with the migrant caravan.
By Emily Singer - March 07, 2019Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested rolling back a major Supreme Court case that protects newspapers from harassing lawsuits from politicians. That would make Donald Trump very happy.
By Lisa Needham - February 20, 2019Citizens petitioning their government, a right protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution, are being called ‘terrorists’ by the Trump administration.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 16, 2018The entire Senate affirms that the free press is not the ‘enemy of the people,’ a stinging rebuke to Trump’s dangerous and authoritarian rhetoric about the media.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 16, 2018Once again, Trump’s reckless and unprecedented use and abuse of Twitter has come back to bite him.
By Kaili Joy Gray - May 23, 2018