What The Feds Should Do Instead Of Banning Viewpoint Censorship From Social Media
Any government regulation that restricts an platform’s authority to censor speech will, in fact, amount to a form of viewpoint censorship that will violate the platforms’ First Amendment rights.
Education Is Speech: Why New York’s Attempts To Control Private Schools Are Unconstitutional
Courts will not be able to ignore the reality that education is speech and that states are imposing unconstitutional content and viewpoint discrimination.
Virginia School Board Fires Teacher For Not Using Transgender Pronouns
Peter Vlaming lost his job because, although he agreed to use the transgender student’s opposite-sex name, he refused to use transgender pronouns.
Will Disclosing Prescription Drug Prices In TV Ads Make Any Difference?
If the ‘purpose of this regulation’ is to affect pharmaceutical pricing, then confining disclosures only to television advertisements would by definition have a limited impact.
The ACLU Has Become A Big Fat Hypocrite On Free Speech
The ACLU has chosen activism over free speech advocacy for abortion, and hit the warpath against the First Amendment rights of small business owners.
Anthony Kennedy’s Pregnancy Center Ruling Is One All Americans Can Cheer On
The powerful defense of free speech Kennedy delivered in one of his final cases shows a path forward for a nation struggling with severe partisan divides.
Supreme Court Ruling On Forced Union Dues Caps Term That’s All About Compelled Speech
Janus v. AFSCME caps a Supreme Court term that is surprisingly of the moment, given how long cases take to make their way to the court.
Why The Supreme Court’s Ruling Will Protect All Pregnancy Centers From Forcibly Promoting Abortion
The majority opinion in NIFLA provides crisis pregnancy centers a nearly impenetrable protection from government interference with their pro-life message.
How Jordan Peterson Missed A Layup On Religious Freedom
If Peterson can be tripped up by the most obvious and easily refuted rejections of his non-compelled-speech program, the very thing that propelled his rise to fame, what good is he?
Today’s Two Main Political Camps Are Pro-Thought Versus Anti-Thought
The usual political labels of Left and Right cannot explain the exploding attacks on freedom of speech and conscience that are running rampant today.
3 Key Takeaways From SCOTUS Arguments Over Forcing Pregnancy Centers To Advertise Abortions
Based on oral arguments, even the liberal justices didn’t like a law that discriminates against pro-life pregnancy clinics.
What 13 Women Told The Supreme Court About Their Crisis Pregnancies
A powerful amicus brief seeks to bring humanity to a complex legal question about free speech overlaid with the also-controversial issue of abortion.
Baltimore Decision Caps Off Spate Of Recent Pro-Life Court Wins
An appeals court overturned a Baltimore ordinance that forced Christian nonprofit pregnancy centers to post signage in their waiting rooms saying that they do not offer or refer for abortions.
SCOTUS To Review Law Forcing Pro-Life Centers To Promote Abortion
A long-fought battle to keep the Golden State from forcing its pro-life citizens to choose between obeying conscience or the law of the land is on its way to Washington DC for a final decision.
Christian Artists Should Have The Same Free Speech Game As Colin Kaepernick
Why is Colin Kaepernick’s situation playing out in the court of public opinion while Jack Phillips’ is playing out in the Supreme Court of the United States?
What’s Worse Than Government Banning Speech? Making You Say Things You Don’t Support
When we refuse to acquiesce in a state policy, we remind the world that not everyone agrees. In compelling speech on these subjects, the state forces that disagreement into the shadows.
The War On Wedding Vendors Is Ultimately A War On Free Thought
To forbid people from articulating beliefs and peacefully acting consistently with those beliefs is, at its core, an attempt to forbid the beliefs themselves.