Tag: First Amendment

Left-Wing Group Sues Trump Admin to Stop Deportations of Anti-Israel Foreign Student Protesters

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Mahmoud Khalil

A left-wing group representing the interests of Arab-Americans filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to stop the deportations of students involved in anti-Israel protests.

The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeking to block the Trump administration’s efforts to repatriate foreign students involved the anti-Israel protests that swept many college campuses in 2024, according to court documents. The White House has argued that the students detained and deported so far have been involved in anti-Semitic activity aligned with the Hamas terrorist group, and immigration experts say the actions are not related to free speech.

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Judge Strips Immunity from Ohio State Officials for Firing Professor Who ‘Triggered’ Student

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Major decisions on campus free speech from the Supreme Court and an influential federal appeals court in recent years have apparently not reached public universities under their jurisdiction, given their treatment of faculty and a Christian apologist.

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Appeals Court to Answer Whether Noncitizens Have Second Amendment Rights

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Whether illegal immigrants have the right to keep and bear arms is a question now up for the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

The case USA v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores centers around Flores’ arrest in Chicago for having a firearm. Representing the federal government, Margaret Steindorf said Flores’ immigration status is important.

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Supreme Court Takes Up Religious Parents’ Challenge to Schools That Mandate Books Celebrating Gender Transitions

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School Library

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear parents’ challenge to a school district requirement forcing kids to participate in story times featuring books on gender and sexuality.

In their petition, parents asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Montgomery County Board of Education’s decision to ignore their religious objections violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

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COVID Catechists Come for Incoming NIH Chief Bhattacharya as SCOTUS Reconsiders Doctor Censorship

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Jay Bhattacharya, M.D.

Proponents of once-dominant COVID-19 views and policy, from the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to mandatory lockdowns, remote learning, masking and vaccines, often chose between two strategies to marginalize dissenters.

They flooded medical licensing boards with complaints against doctors such as Minnesota’s Scott Jensen, who faced new investigations from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s administration after announcing his candidacy for governor, or sought to destroy their reputations in general, scientific and social media, calling them racist, cold-hearted and “fringe.”

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Appeals Court Reinstates Doctor’s First Amendment Retaliation Suit for Challenging Critical Race Theory, BLM

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Tara Gustilo, M.D.

“Can a workplace demand ideological conformity from employees, especially when those employees are expected to represent certain racialized or gendered perspectives?”

That’s the core issue in a reinstated lawsuit by a Filipina-American doctor with black children who alleges a witch hunt by her former Minneapolis public hospital for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and critical race theory, calling COVID-19 the “China virus” and categorizing protests against George Floyd’s death as “riots,” according to her lawyer.

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Commentary: With Trump’s Win, a Concerted Censorship Effort Will Intensify

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Donald Trump at rally

by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann   As was proven during the 2024 election cycle, we are well beyond the scope of mere bias in the legacy media. Given the shrinking audience influence coupled with massively declining income from severe loss of cable subscriptions and advertising revenue, American media outlets have chosen…

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Judges Rule Against TikTok Citing ‘Grave Threat to National Security’

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iPhone with TikTok app logo

A federal appeals court ruled Friday to uphold a law that will force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the platform or have it banned in the U.S.

A panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled unanimously that the law forcing ByteDance, TikTok’s parent firm, to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company or face a U.S. ban is legal, clearing the way for the law to take effect on Jan. 19, 2025. In their ruling, the judges characterized TikTok as a national security risk because the Chinese government is able to manipulate the app to its advantage and stated that the April divest-or-ban law does not run afoul of the First Amendment, as some of the law’s critics have contended.

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Conservative Florida Attorney Appeals License Suspension, Denounces Political Censorship over Calling His Opponent ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Swampy’

Rachel Alexander

Chris Crowley, a conservative attorney in Florida, filed an appeal with the Florida Supreme Court last month contesting a 60-day suspension of his law license for exercising free speech during his political campaign for the state attorney’s office in Florida’s 20th Judicial Circuit.

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