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Fifth Circuit: First Amendment protects drag show from campus censors
The Fifth Circuit just told West Texas A&M: students' abilities to express themselves shouldn’t be subject to the whims of college administrators.

FIRE statement on President Trump’s executive order to outlaw flag burning
Flag burning is protected expressive activity under the First Amendment.

Chinese officials force censorship of Thai gallery’s art exhibit about authoritarianism (proving the exhibit’s point)
China censors Thai art show on authoritarianism, Hong Kong cites U.S. crackdowns to justify jailing Jimmy Lai, and T-shirts get people in trouble in Venezuela and Morocco

The findings against Harvard are a blueprint for a National Campus Speech Code
HHS’s Title VI findings against Harvard collapse speech and conduct into one bucket, creating a de facto national campus speech code that threatens to turn political dissent into a punishable civil rights violation.