Comfortably Numb: Honoring America’s Right to a Free Press was the first-prize high school east winner in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Ella Grace Rodriguez, Justin Whittingham, and Luke…
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Free Speech in America was one of the second-prize high school east winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Darius Adamson, Gabrielle Greenley, and Darius Darby, seniors at Richland…
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Students Ruin the First Amendment was one of the second-prize high school central winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Sophie Foley and Lauren Higginbotham, seniors graders at…
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America: A Marketplace of Ideas was one of the second-prize high school east winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Anne Joseph and Ashley Browne, sophomores at the Winsor School in…
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The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Lamone v. Benisek, a case on partisan gerrymandering. Republican voters in Maryland challenged the 2011 6th Congressional District map, saying it…
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A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City heard oral argument in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, a case concerning the 45th…
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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…
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Fifty years ago, on February 24, 1969, the Supreme Court decided in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not lose their First Amendment rights on school grounds. The court ruled in favor…
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Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone examined the evolution of free speech since the Supreme Court’s 1919 ruling which decided that freedom…
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The Supreme Court heard oral argument in two consolidated cases, American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park v. American Humanist Association, which concern…
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The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, DC. In this session Senator James Lankford (R-OK) participated in a…
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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.…
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University of Chicago law Professor Laura Weinrib talked about how the U.S. Supreme Court addressed free speech cases during World War I. She is the author of the book, The Taming of Free Speech:…
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Constitutional law experts and attorneys discussed freedom of speech. Speakers included former ACLU President Nadine Strossen and attorneys Floyd Abrams, Daniel Kornstein, and Alex Abdo. Topics…
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The Heritage Foundation held a discussion on the First Amendment and whether hate speech should be outlawed. Policy experts debated the pros and cons before taking questions and comments…
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered remarks at the Justice Department’s day-long forum on free speech on college campuses. In his remarks he said, “Suppression of competing voices is not the…
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Governor John Kasich (R-OH), a potential presidential candidate in 2020, delivered remarks at the Loeb School’s First Amendment Gala in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project and Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute hosted a discussion on the relationship between reporters and their sources, and the procedures and…
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Princeton professor Keith Whittington discussed free speech on college campuses.
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In this portion of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' annual judicial conference, panelists debated the right of publicity versus the right of free speech, from the perspectives of performers, movie…
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