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PEN America CEO and President Suzanne Nossel offered her thoughts on censoring of free speech. This virtual event was sponsored by Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Comedian Judy Gold offered her thoughts on free speech and censorship. This was a virtual event hosted by Newsday Live Authors Series in New York.

Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and Steve Cohen (D-TN), National Review Editor Rich Lowery, and PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel joined the National Constitution Center for a virtual…

Floyd Abrams and Theodore Olon talked about the Supreme Court’s 1971 decision in New York Times v. United States. The case concerns the New York Times and Washington Post's successful challenge to the…

Mary Beth Tinker and Erik Jaffe talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 7-2 that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school.…

John Tinker, one of the co-petitioners in the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, talked about the 50th anniversary of the landmark case on student free speech.On February 24, 1969, the Court…

Constitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech…

Beverly Gage and Thomas Goldstein talked about the 1919 Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, in which the court unanimously ruled that the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional, even when…

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court heard via teleconference oral argument in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and the consolidated case. The issue…

The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a virtual briefing on violence against protesters and journalists in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died…

The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the incident between U.S. Park Police and protesters near the White House at Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020. Law enforcement officials advanced on…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could affect the way public funds are used for students attending religious schools. It stems from a Montana Supreme Court decision that…

University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds taught a class about free speech and legal cases that have impacted the courts' interpretation of this part of the…

The National Constitution Center held a panel discussion following the Supreme Court consolidated oral argument in Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel. The cases…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument via teleconference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The case involves religious freedom and whether federal courts have a role in discrimination cases…

The National Constitution Center held a panel discussion following the Supreme Court oral argument in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants. The case challenges a federal…

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court heard oral argument via teleconference on a case challenging a government-debt exception to the robocall ban to cell phones. The 1991…

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court heard oral argument via teleconference on a case involving free speech and federal restrictions to AIDS and HIV funding to foreign affiliates of…

The National Constitution Center held a panel discussion following the Supreme Court oral argument in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. The case challenges the Trump administration’s…

The National Constitution Center held a panel discussion following Supreme Court oral argument in United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc..…