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FIRE Wraps Up Another Successful Year
As 2007 draws to a close, we’ve been taking some time here on The Torch to reflect on some of this year’s highs and lows in campus freedom. For more information on FIRE’s activities over the past year, check out our annual end-of-year press release.
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LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges unconstitutional provisions Rubio uses in crusade to deport legal immigrants over protected speech
FIRE seeks a landmark ruling that the First Amendment forbids the government from deporting lawfully present noncitizens for constitutionally protected speech

Fiction is not a felony
In courts across the country, prosecutors are turning lyrics into alleged confessions. A new bipartisan bill — the RAP Act — aims to protect artistic freedom.

The Trump administration doesn’t need to go to Brazil to find government censorship. It can look in a mirror.
The Trump administration is railing against censorship in Brazil while cracking down on speech here at home, but in the fight against global censorship, hypocrisy isn’t just unhelpful — it’s dangerous.

FIRE statement on Iowa's book ban
In a new amicus brief, FIRE urges the court to block Iowa's broad book ban, which targets any book depicting a "sex act."