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The First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action - Reason.com
I have a new draft up on SSRN, called The First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action.I'd appreciate constructive comments from anyone who's interested! Here's the abstract: In the wake of ...
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Supreme Court to decide if First Amendment stops government officials from blocking social media critics - WBAL-TV 11 News
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether the First Amendment protects social media users from being blocked from commenting on the personal pages that government officials use ...
Fox News1y
Justice Jackson ripped for worrying about the First Amendment 'hamstringing' government: 'Literally the point' - Fox News
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was ridiculed on Monday after voicing her concerns that the First Amendment could limit the federal government.
Los Angeles Times1mon
Three ways the government can silence speech without banning it
But in all those scenarios, the government is doing exactly what 1st Amendment law exists to prevent: using official power to make speech less free. Gregory P. Magarian is a professor at ...
The Hill1y
Here’s how to stop government end-runs around the First Amendment
The government may encourage them to use that discretion, but when government contacts go beyond persuasion to coercion, the government’s actions violate the First Amendment.
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Trump's Actions Contradict His Avowed Commitment to First Amendment Rights: The President Has Launched a Multifaceted Crusade Against Speech That Offends Him - MSN
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at "restoring freedom of speech." But judging from his administration's policies and his actions as a ...
The Atlantic4mon
Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views
The essence of a First Amendment retaliation claim is that although the government may deny someone a valuable benefit for any number of reasons, “there are some reasons upon which the ...
The Daily Signal5mon
What Does an Executive Action Add to the First Amendment?
The government does not trust its citizens, and the citizens, in turn, learn not to trust their government. An executive order goes only so far in repairing trust.
CNN2y
Supreme Court to decide if First Amendment stops government officials from blocking social media critics - CNN
It said that a government official’s personal social media page could be considered a public forum – and covered by the First Amendment’s prohibitions against certain state action ...
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Supreme Court to decide if First Amendment stops government officials from blocking social media critics - KOAT Channel 7
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether the First Amendment protects social media users from being blocked from commenting on the personal pages that government officials use ...
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Supreme Court to decide if First Amendment stops government officials from blocking social media critics - KCRA Channel 3
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether the First Amendment protects social media users from being blocked from commenting on the personal pages that government officials use ...