Tag: First Amendment

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Energy and Environment

Grandstanding AGs vs. free speech

Washington Examiner · April 13, 2016 4:01 am

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Blackburn: Are the Clintons playing by the same rules as everyone else?

Rudy Takala · April 11, 2016 4:01 am

The behavior of Melissa Click and the Mizzou protesters became an embarrassment for the school, which soon after saw the drop in admissions that would lead to the dorm closures and budget shortfall. (AP Photo)

Gallup: Many U.S. college students side with Melissa Click

Becket Adams · April 5, 2016 2:00 am

"The Twitterverse has carved out for itself a unique and increasingly important role in American elections and political debate," Democratic FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub wrote in an opinion dated March 31. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

Failed effort to regulate Twitter leaves Dems exasperated

Rudy Takala · April 2, 2016 11:40 pm

Obama warns Turkish leader about press freedom

Obama warns Turkish leader about press freedom

Nicole Duran · April 1, 2016 11:07 pm

Donald Trump had a 52-point lead over Ted Cruz while Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by 48 points. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump and Clinton crusade to rein in the First Amendment

Timothy P. Carney · March 29, 2016 11:23 pm

The administration created a compromise called an accommodation in which an insurer pays for the birth control coverage instead of the employer. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Supreme Court looks divided on birth control case

Robert King · March 23, 2016 5:56 pm

University of California at Berkeley, home to the 1960s free speech movement, is in the midst of a new First Amendment dust-up. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Banned in Berkeley?

Anna Giaritelli · March 17, 2016 4:33 am

Ajit Pai today is one of the fiercest defenders of liberty in Washington. His service comes at a critical point in history: The agency has assumed sweeping new regulatory authorities over the last several years. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

FCC commissioner: Something changing in America about the First Amendment

Rudy Takala · March 14, 2016 4:01 am

Piper was awarded with the Bradley Foundation's 2016 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom at CPAC on Friday. (Photo courtesy www.okwu.edu)

Beltway Confidential

This college president has advice for special snowflakes

Ashe Schow · March 7, 2016 10:58 pm

Leading Republican warns of speech codes at colleges

Leading Republican warns of speech codes at colleges

Joseph Lawler · March 2, 2016 11:33 pm

Matt Drudge in October said that such a law could end his popular Drudge Report and force users into what he called "corporate ghettos" like Facebook and Twitter. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)

Trade deal threat to free speech, Drudge?

Rudy Takala · February 29, 2016 5:01 am