Charlie Kirk Candace Owens Can't Present Serious Evidence for Her Charlie Kirk Assassination Theories The mainstream media have made serious errors. That doesn't mean every contrarian, fringe, or conspiratorial idea is automatically correct. Robby Soave | 11.11.2025 6:05 PM
First Amendment You Can Thank This Ohio Klansman for Expanding Your Freedom of Speech Brandenburg v. Ohio established the "imminent lawless action" standard. More than 50 years later, partisans keep trying to apply it selectively. Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2025 6:00 AM
Free Speech No Injunction in Defamation and Copyright Case Stemming from "Africatown International Design Competition" Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.4.2025 5:07 PM
Free Speech Photo: A Banksy Mural's Ghostly Outline The street artist's London mural appeared after the U.K. Parliament voted to ban a group that uses "disruptive tactics" against manufacturers supplying weapons to Israel. Bekah Congdon | 11.4.2025 6:00 AM
Free Speech Public School Teacher Lacks First Amendment Right to Put Foot-High Crucifix on Classroom Wall Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.3.2025 5:04 PM
Obscenity Oklahoma's Obscenity Bait and Switch Could Ban Pride Parades and Public Drag Shows These lawmakers expect local authorities to ban "obscenity" before it happens—a recipe for chilling a wide variety of legal speech. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.3.2025 11:52 AM
Free Speech Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.3.2025 8:01 AM
Trump Administration James Comey Says His Grudge-Driven Prosecution Is Unconstitutional Retaliation for His Criticism of Trump The former FBI director also argues that the charges against him are legally deficient and that the prosecutor who brought them was improperly appointed. Jacob Sullum | 10.31.2025 6:00 PM
Free Speech Palestinian Youth Movement Social Media Posts with "No Justice, No Peace" Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Are Protected Speech Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.31.2025 9:19 AM
Free Speech CodePink Social Media Posts with Inverted Red Triangle Urging Protest Outside Synagogue Could Be Punishable Threats of Violence Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.31.2025 8:03 AM
Free Speech Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Tennessee Man Over Facebook Meme Larry Bushart was arrested on a $2 million bond for posting a meme on Facebook. He was released this week, after more than a month in jail. Joe Lancaster | 10.30.2025 1:30 PM
Free Speech Social Media Speech "Recklessly" Jeopardizing Classmates' Sense of "Safety" by "Condon[ing]" "Forcible Family Separation by Immigration Authorities" May Be Punishable So argues a concurring opinion in today's Second Circuit decision in Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School Dist., also speaking about speech that "callously cheer[s] on or condone[s]" "police brutality, ... religiously-motivated attacks on their houses of worship, sexual or gender-based violence, or any other type of targeted state or private violence." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.30.2025 12:56 PM
Free Speech School's "Interest in Teaching Racial Sensitivity Is Not Sufficient" to Justify Punishing Student's "Free Expression Off-Campus" So holds the Second Circuit: "Tying a student speaker's constitutional right to free expression solely to the reaction that speech garners from upset or angry listeners cannot be squared with [First Amendment] principles." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.30.2025 11:58 AM
Free Speech Gender Queer, Libel by Implication, and "Truth Is Not a Complete Defense of Defamation" Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.30.2025 8:01 AM
First Amendment When the Government Censored Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong Remembering a monstrous era of American history Damon Root | 10.30.2025 7:00 AM
Free Speech Calling Teacher "Bully," "Lunatic," "Woke," "God Complex," and "White Savior" Is Opinion and Thus Not Defamation Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.29.2025 5:22 PM
Free Speech Emory University Senate Open Expression Committee Opinion on "Termination of Professor Due to Charlie Kirk-Related Speech" Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.29.2025 4:03 PM
Gender Identity DOJ Subpoena to Gender Medicine Telehealth Provider Quashed, but Record Not Sealed Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.29.2025 3:50 PM
Donald Trump Jake Tapper Called Out Obama and Biden for Free Speech Abuses. He Says Trump Is on a New Level. "I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," CNN's Jake Tapper says of the Trump administration's actions in the Jimmy Kimmel saga. Nick Gillespie | 10.29.2025 12:30 PM
Free Speech First and Fourth Amendment Claims Based on Police Investigation of Gender Queer in Classroom Can Go Forward Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.29.2025 8:33 AM
Free Speech Virginia Court Reverses $1M Libel Judgment for School Board Chair Called "Sexual Predator/Harasser" by Activist The speaker's comments, the Virginia Court of Appeals held, "comments constitute non-actionable opinions based on fully disclosed facts." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.28.2025 3:02 PM
Immigration Federal Immigration Agents Accused of Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protestors, Pointing Gun at Veterans in Chicago The actions would violate a federal order imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis to limit the use of nonlethal weapons and other crowd control tactics. Autumn Billings | 10.27.2025 5:45 PM
First Amendment The 6th Circuit Upholds a School's Sweatshirt Censorship Because 'Let's Go Brandon' Is 'Plainly Vulgar' That understanding of a familiar anti-Biden slogan hinges on the political message it communicates. Jacob Sullum | 10.27.2025 4:10 PM
Apps Congress Investigates TeaOnHer App for Letting Men Post About Women Without Their Consent It sounds like something niche feminist bloggers might have taken up 10 years ago. But this is being led by Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.27.2025 12:30 PM
AI in Court Yasiel Puig, AI-Hallucinated Citations, Gambling, and Libel Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.27.2025 8:01 AM
Government Spending ICE Spent Over $71 Million on Guns, Armor, and Chemical Munitions in 2025 So Far The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024. Autumn Billings | 10.24.2025 9:45 AM
Academia Zionism and Title VI How campus antidiscrimination law might apply to campus protests. Stephen E. Sachs |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.23.2025 3:52 PM
Religion and the Law "When You Soon Return to Allah": "Harmless Islamic Reference[] About Life and Death" or an "'Absolute' and 'Direct' Threat" to Ex-Wife? "Allah does not forget, however. This is how people earn their final place in the [h]ereafter." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.23.2025 12:26 PM
First Amendment A D.C. Man Was Arrested for Mocking National Guard Troops with Star Wars' 'Imperial March.' Now He's Suing. Sam O'Hara went viral for playing "The Imperial March" behind groups of National Guard soldiers in D.C. He also says it led to him being illegally detained. C.J. Ciaramella | 10.23.2025 12:15 PM
ICE ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy. Autumn Billings | 10.23.2025 9:50 AM
Free Speech First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech" Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.23.2025 8:01 AM
Free Speech Conservative Activist Robby Starbuck Alleges Massive Defamation by Google AI Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.22.2025 3:53 PM
Free Speech Trump Campaigned on Free Speech. That Isn't How He's Governed. Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power. John Stossel | 10.22.2025 2:05 PM
Protests Alabama Police Arrest 61-Year-Old Woman in Penis Costume at No Kings Protest Police officers took Jeana Gamble to the ground on the side of the road because they found her costume "obscene." Joe Lancaster | 10.21.2025 2:30 PM
Campus Free Speech Oxford Union Ousts President Over Insults to Charlie Kirk The murder of an American activist tore apart Britain’s hallowed free speech club. Matthew Petti | 10.21.2025 12:23 PM
Free Speech Lawyer Suspended for Over-Aggressive Demand Letter in Libel Case Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.21.2025 9:29 AM
Free Speech Discrimination "Due to Community Complaints" About Person's "Zionist Views" Isn't Based on Race or Religion, Court Holds Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.20.2025 3:39 PM
Free Speech No Defamation Liability for "Antagonistic Rants" Against Israeli Muslim Educational Institution, Including Claims It's Agent of Israeli Government Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.20.2025 8:28 AM
Protests What I Saw at the No Kings Rally in New York City Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday. Nick Gillespie | 10.18.2025 4:46 PM
Free Speech "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Conclusion Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.17.2025 12:12 PM
Free Speech "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Permissible Options Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.17.2025 8:01 AM
Free Speech IRS Agents Who Revealed Details About Hunter Biden Investigation Lose Libel Suit Against Biden's Lawyer The lawyer's claims that plaintiffs had violated federal law were opinions based on disclosed facts, the court concludes. Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.16.2025 5:36 PM
Free Speech Everything Old Is New Again, Part MDCCCXI: The "Wire Service Defense" Before Wire Services Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.16.2025 2:53 PM
Politics The Pentagon's New Press Policy Is Absurd Mainstream and conservative news outlets were correct to reject it. Robby Soave | 10.16.2025 2:15 PM
First Amendment Texas City Council Approves $500,000 Payment to Former Member Who Said Her Advocacy Led to a Bogus Arrest The settlement, which followed Sylvia Gonzalez's victory at the Supreme Court, also includes remedial First Amendment training for city officials. Jacob Sullum | 10.16.2025 1:15 PM
Free Speech "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Tool for Goverment Control, and Magnitude of Bias Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.16.2025 8:01 AM
Immigration Meta Removes ICE-Sightings Group After DOJ Outreach Meta is the third tech company in two weeks to succumb to DOJ pressure to remove apps and groups used to share information on immigration officer sightings. Autumn Billings | 10.15.2025 5:05 PM
