free speech
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers' rights..
Dahlia Lithwick's piece on the oral arguments on the latest round of the FCC "fleeting expletives" case that the Supreme Court kicked back to the circuit court 3 years ago.
Mayor Richie Rich and his faithful dog dollar. (TM) Hey, he definitely has the Althouse vote locked up! Perhaps Mayor Rich will talk about how he likes to take friends.
I have a column up at the Prospect about the decision of the BART transit police to -- in the ignoble tradition of the Alien and Sedition Acts -- cut.
I wonder how Althouse's low-wattage cheering section reconciles her recent discovery that private corporations should be committed to "viewpoint neutrality" with their terror over the consequences of restoring the fairness.
Wisconsin Republicans attack free speech and academic freedom using horribly written statute. ...more from Krugman. And Fallows.
To its substantial credit, in an 8-1 ruling today the Court held that the civil suit against Fred Phelps violated the First Amendment. It's hard to celebrate any victory for.
Some Trotskyite Wisconsisn judge apparently doesn't understand the grave dangers posed by a free speech forum. Why won't he answer inane hypotheticals about viewpoint discrimination? I demand answers!!!11!!!1!!!!