New Yorkers regale Rudy Giuliani with boos and Bronx cheers at Yankee Stadium on his 74th birthday Catholic high school in Kentucky nixes gay valedictorian’s speech — so he delivers it outside after graduation, with a megaphone Christian Bales, an…
ABC axes Roseanne reboot after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet likening Valerie Jarrett, ex-Obama advisor and woman of color, to an ape Like most sentient human beings, Roseanne costar/producer Sara Gilbert found Barr’s tweet “abhorrent” "Roseanne" star Sara Gilbert: Roseanne's recent…
In November 2017, campus police at Joliet Junior College (JCC) in Joliet, Illinois, hauled in Ivette Salazar for handing out leaflets on campus without permission. Salazar, a 24-year-old nursing student, sued on First Amendment grounds. The school recently settled the suit, marking…
Before Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference playoffs on May 24, a reporter approached Steve Kerr. She asked the Golden State Warriors coach to share his thoughts about the National Football League’s announcement earlier that day that it will require…
Trump: Maybe NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem “shouldn’t be in the country” The Borowitz Report: NFL adds First Amendment to banned substances list I deeply disagree with the decision of the NFL. Their decision is…
Federal judge rules that Trump’s Twitter feed is a public forum and that the president has violated the First Amendment by blocking users Trump Twitter ruling doesn’t mean all of Twitter is subject to the First Amendment, just Trump’s account…
Kendrick Lamar schooled a white fan who failed to self-censor the n-word during an onstage singalong of “m.A.A.d City” at an Alabama concert The NFL is considering a 15-yard penalty for taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick-style, during the National Anthem Embed…
Summa BLEEP! Laude: Publix grocery store in Charleston, South Carolina, censors high school student’s graduation cake 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Florida Department of Corrections ban on Prison Legal News Senior sues Liberty High School in suburban Portland,…
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote in a 1929 dissent that if any Constitutional principle is paramount, “it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the…
PBS dives deep into the incident that roiled the University of Wisconsin and led to a nationwide wave of anti-heckler laws Return of the Reagan-era “Gag Rule”: The Trump administration will withhold federal funding from health providers that perform abortions…
