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The Right Coast
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson LOST On What The First Amendment Even IS: SCOTUS Speech Case
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The Right Coast
This Country Can’t Afford A SCOTUS Weak On Internet Censorship
The Biden administration attempted to distract the Supreme Court from the voluminous evidence of federal abuse of Americans speech rights during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri Monday. It sounded…
Religion Clause
Ban on Caste Discrimination Is Constitutional
In Bagal v. Sawant, (WD WA, March 8, 2024), a Washington federal district court rejected First and 14th Amendment challenges to the City of Seattle's adding of "caste" as a protected…
PrawfsBlawg
Equality of Silence
Main Tuesday, March 05, 2024Equality of SilenceThorough discussion in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (paywalled) about private universities enacting (mostly*) content-neutral restrictions on the time, place, and manner of campus…
PrawfsBlawg
Lots of campus speech
Main Thursday, February 29, 2024Lots of campus speech• Beware an equality of silence. Universities cannot restrict anti-Israel/antisemitic/pro-Hamas speech solely because of its viewpoint. The solution to "pervasive antisemitism" therefore is…
PrawfsBlawg
Swarthmore, whatever comes after redux
Main Monday, January 29, 2024Swarthmore, whatever comes after reduxMy kid did not particularly like Swarthmore during the campus visit, so I feel ok enjoying the media-and-podcast tour by Wesleyan's president…
PrawfsBlawg
More thoughts on campus speech (Updated)
Main Saturday, January 27, 2024More thoughts on campus speech (Updated)Several things:• Stephen Carter writes in The Times about the importance of free speech to the campus mission of intellectual curiosity…
Faruki Blog
Does the First Amendment Protect a College Chancellor/Porn Actor?
By jgreinerficlaw-com-jack-greiner
I have to admit, I never thought I'd be writing a column with this headline. But the First Amendment pops up in all sorts of unusual places I suppose.
Religion Clause
4th Circuit: Nation of Gods and Earths May Qualify as a Religion
In Greene v. Lassiter, (4th Cir., Dec.13, 2023), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in a pro se suit by a prisoner held that the district court should not have dismissed…
PrawfsBlawg
The House of Representatives is in Camp Two
Main Thursday, December 14, 2023The House of Representatives is in Camp TwoThe House on Wednesday passed a non-binding resolution condemning the rise of antisemitism on campuses and condemning Gay, Kornbluth,…