Attorney @theFIREorg, Las Vegas native, former Detroiter, full-time Detroit sports sufferer. Views are mine and could be yours, too!
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The DOJ has appealed Judge Wise’s ruling in @StanfordDaily v. Rubio. Our lawyers at @TheFIREorg are fully prepared to defend that ruling in court, ensuring we uphold and expand protections for non-citizens to participate in student journalism, at The Stanford Daily and beyond.
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Treason is the one -- and only -- crime specifically defined in the Constitution. It is not saying negative things about "the troops."
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"Censorship teaches the next generation that the way to fight disagreeable speech is to silence the speaker," @CTFitzpatrick of @theFIREorg writes. wapo.st/47akMoR
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Court orders are not optional. The law requires all Americans to abide by court rulings, regardless of whether they disagree with the ruling.
Refusal to abide by a court ruling has a name: contempt. And contempt has clear consequences.
Judge Kelly explicitly ordered the Trump administration to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s “hard pass” credentials to the White House. Refusing to abide by Judge Kelly's clear order would be a dangerous escalation and an affront to the rule of law.
At 1am ET, a judge ordered the Trump admin to restore White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico. As of 9am, CNN correspondent @betsy_klein has still not been allowed back to her workspace at the WH. "It appears that the White House may be in defiance of this court order..."
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BREAKING: An Iowa state court has dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster and FIRE client J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper, a victory for First Amendment rights.
More to come.
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"The government isn't supposed to like the press. The press isn't there to make the government happy. . . . It is not there to be a mouthpiece of the government.
"This isn't Russia. This isn't China. This is America."
🎙️: @CTFitzpatrick
📺: @ThisWeekABC @jonkarl
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SUNDAY on @ThisWeekABC with @jonkarl
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✅@SteveScalise
✅@CTFitzpatrick
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AND @donnabrazile, @fshakir & @FrankLuntz & @EWErickson join the roundtable
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🔔 What does Stanford Daily v. Rubio mean for free speech?
Join our webinar to learn how the Trump admin’s deportation scheme affects journalism both on campus and off, with @CTFitzpatrick, Esha Bhandari, and Marium Uddin.
🗓️ Sept. 18, 1 p.m. ET
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“START THE CELEBRATIONS!!!!
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VICTORY! After a FIRE lawsuit, the University of Washington paid $600,000 after punishing Professor Stuart Reges for parodying a university-approved “land acknowledgment” in his syllabus. 🧵
LAWSUIT: The University of Washington recommended Stuart Reges include a land acknowledgment in his computer science syllabus.
So, he wrote one — but the university punished him for it.
Today, with help from FIRE, Reges sued UW to vindicate his #1A right to free expression.
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FIRE won a huge First Amendment victory today.
And before anyone mischaracterizes it: This ruling does NOT say the government must admit anyone, issue anyone a visa, or grant anyone citizenship.
It says that once a person is lawfully here, the government cannot deport them because they engaged in protected speech.
The government cannot tell a legal immigrant: An American is free to say this, but if you say it, you’re out.
That’s the principle we sued to defend. And today we won.
BREAKING: Federal court rules the statutes the Trump admin used in its speech-based deportation scheme are unconstitutional fire.org/news/breaking-feder… via @TheFIREorg
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If you’re in DC make sure to buy @CTFitzpatrick a drink this weekend!
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Another day, another threat of another bogus defamation lawsuit from the leader of the free world.
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I just got my new library card and, wow, libraries are just so cool. And so underutilized! People, GO TO THE LIBRARY! I have never left a library in anything less than a 10/10 mood.
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VICTORY! A federal appeals court rejected Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” — a broad ban on what public university faculty may discuss in class — holding it violates the First Amendment.
“Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them. Forcing an official government line—in a college classroom of all places—is exactly the ‘pall of orthodoxy’ the First Amendment will not tolerate.”
BREAKING: We're challenging Florida's unconstitutional "Stop WOKE Act."
Because you can't censor your way to free speech.
thefire.org/lawsuit-fire-cha…
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LAWSUIT: We’re suing DHS after agents tracked down a Rochester, NY, man for sending a critical email to ICE’s director.
This is America at 250. Dispatching federal agents to your doorstep because you criticized a public official is an insult to the First Amendment.
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gosh it's almost as if travel and actually meeting people is a better way to understand the world than reading rage bait on twitter all day
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If someone finally sees Russia for what it is and comes around to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and freedom, the response should be “welcome,” not ridicule. The purpose of making an argument is to persuade. If you resent people for being persuaded, you were more invested in the online fight than the actual cause.
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Last year, the police jailed Larry Bushart for 37 days on a $2M bond for posting a meme after Charlie Kirk’s murder.
With our help, Larry sued Perry County, TN, and its sheriff for violating his rights in retaliation for his protected speech. He has received a $835K settlement.
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FREE WEBINAR: James Comey, Jimmy Kimmel, Disney, the FCC. The latest free speech news is moving fast. FIRE is here to help you make sense of it.
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