AFL and attorney John W. Howard have filed a lawsuit arguing that California's "Stop Nick Shirley Act" unlawfully restricts journalistic freedoms and violates constitutional rights.
AFL and attorney John W. Howard have filed a lawsuit arguing that California’s “Stop Nick Shirley Act” unlawfully restricts journalistic freedoms and violates constitutional rights. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: America First Legal (AFL) and attorney John W. Howard filed a lawsuit against California on Friday to challenge the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” a state law they argue unlawfully restricts journalistic activities. The lawsuit notes the law was created to target independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose investigative reporting into Somali-run daycares and other businesses defrauding the government generated massive public attention. DETAIL: The lawsuit alleges that the law constitutes viewpoint-based discrimination,…Open
The lawsuit filed by computer science doctoral student Dylan Kupsh alleges viewpoint discrimination and due process violations, including the lack of meaningful notice of cases against him.
ChatGPT By M. Walter Free speech absolutism is the solution, because people like Hasan Piker will hang themselves if we just give them the rope to do so.
AI:Internal conflicts are erupting within leftist factions as they engage in "blue-on-blue" battles over First Amendment interpretations and free speech standards. The tension highlights a growing fracture among progressives regarding how much leeway should be granted to controversial figures like Hasan Piker, suggesting that the current ideological movement is struggling to maintain unity when confronted with absolute free speech principles.Open
If NCLA's theory survives, a fight over school funding could obligate every state with compulsory attendance and public-school-only funding to provide more financial choices to families who reject the government's curriculum.
AI:The Nebraska Department of Education is facing legal heat after a lawsuit alleges the state engages in viewpoint discrimination by restricting school funding to specific government-sanctioned curricula. If this legal theory takes hold, it could dismantle the state’s ability to dictate ideological training to children and force a massive redistribution of taxpayer dollars toward families who reject the radicalized, left-wing educational indoctrination currently being shoved down their throats in public institutions. This battle over "education as speech" threatens the foundational control these bureaucrats exert over what our youth are allowed to think and learn.Open
The government cannot create the conditions that coerce people into surrendering enumerated rights like those in the First Amendment.
AI:A new lawsuit is challenging the unconstitutional monopoly held by state-funded educational institutions, specifically targeting the way Nebraska utilizes public funds to promote a single, government-sanctioned viewpoint. The litigation argues that when education becomes a taxpayer-funded indoctrination mill designed to suppress dissenting voices, it violates the First Amendment by coercing citizens to surrender their fundamental rights. This legal push follows a pattern of state-sponsored ideological enforcement in schools and represents a direct confrontation against the systemic use of public coffers to facilitate government propaganda under the guise of instruction.Open
Georgia school district, Quebec tourism minister showed hostility to viewpoints of Christian ministries that weren't even relevant to the programs that bureaucrats suddenly cut off, judges find.
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its […] The post Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex appeared first on American Almanac .
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its split ruling on July 21 in the case of Roderick Theis, a licensed clinical social worker employed by the InterMountain Education Service District in rural Oregon. Theis kept three children's books in his office: Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh, and He Is He and She Is She by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger. All three books present sex as binary and immutable. IMESD characterized the display as a "hostile…Open
government seizing Max Blumenthal’s devices after his Iran trip is a naked attempt to intimidate journalists and chill dissent. He entered on the same kind of press visa mainstream outlets use, yet CBP singled him out, interrogated him, and took his phones to punish reporting that challenges empire, Israel’s agenda, and the Trump-aligned censorship machine. This is not “security.” It’s viewpoint discrimination dressed up as border procedure.Open
Israel-backed propagandists have demanded Blumenthal face US government persecution for reporting from Iran. It appears the Trump admin obliged.
This was originally published on the website of the ADC. Read the full brief of the ADC’s lawsuit here. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a time-sensitive motion in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal, seeking the immediate return of two smartphones unlawfully seized and retained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The motion argues that CBP’s warrantless seizure and continued retention of Blumenthal’s phones violate the First and Fourth Amendments and the Privacy Protection Act. It seeks the immediate return of both devices and all information or copies obtained from them under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g), along with an expedited…Open