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The ACLU will never be quite the same: Spirited free speech advocate David Cole steps down — First Amendment News 432
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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Thoughts on realism and free speech: The ‘Wu Effect’ and the continuing liberal drift away from the First Amendment — First Amendment News 431
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For free speech realists, there is a cautionary maxim that must forever remain on the lips of the living: Free speech for me but not for thee.
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Reflecting on the 2023-24 SCOTUS term: More bust than bang — First Amendment News 430
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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What to make of anti-mask laws and mask-required laws? — First Amendment News 429
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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FIRE pushes for a posthumous pardon: A symbolic act with a real-world wake-up message — First Amendment News 428
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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Comedy in the time of cancel culture — First Amendment News 427
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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Paul Clement hopes to file cert. petition calling on SCOTUS to overrule abortion buffer zone case — First Amendment News 426
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
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On free and timely public access to transcripts in New York Trump trial — First Amendment News 425
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New York’s antiquated method for providing court transcripts under scrutiny after delays in trial of former President Donald Trump.
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Upside-down Justice – Samuel Alito, ‘Mrs. Alito,’ and the symbolic speech debacle — First Amendment News 424
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While the Supreme Court considered an election case, an upside-down flag flew proudly from Justice Samuel Alito’s home.
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Trump v. Merchan — Testing the limits of judicial contempt in criminal cases: 12 questions . . . and a just-released appellate ruling — First Amendment News 423
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Former President Donald Trump's comments about Judge Juan Merchan in the current hush money case raise a basic question: What are the outer limits of contempt regarding a defendant in a criminal case?
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