FIRE filed an amicus brief in the Connecticut Supreme Court with professor Eugene Volokh asking the court to remind police and prosecutors that an outdated "racial ridicule" law cannot be used to arrest people for speech that is not an advertisement.
A federal court enjoined the higher education provisions of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” holding that the “dystopian” law violated the First Amendment rights of faculty and students.
A proposed rule in Missouri would restrict public libraries from using state funds to purchase books that discuss sex and would allow "any person" to challenge those materials.
Last month, as Florida enacted House Bill 7 — the first anti-“critical race theory” bill in the country to directly limit classroom discussion in higher education — FIRE urged colleges to interpret the law as narrowly as possible or, if necessary, to ignore its unconstitutional provisions.