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Generative AI and the future of last-century law — First Amendment News 411
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
The scent of blood in the water: Feeding frenzy for defamation plaintiffs – First Amendment News 410
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
A monumental moment in the history of symbolic speech — Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral — First Amendment News 409
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“Let the people see what they did to my boy.” The stirring words of Mamie Till-Mobley in early September 1955 after viewing the brutalized body of her 14-year-old son Emmett.
Values Lady: give up your vows! The death of normative theories of free speech – First Amendment News 408
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
Robert Post: ‘There is growing pessimism about the future of free speech in the United States’ — First Amendment News 407
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
‘American Fiction’ movie takes satirical aim at politically correct white publishing world — First Amendment News 406
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
‘Your words are offensive!’ — ‘Pardon me?’ — The 20th anniversary of Lenny Bruce’s posthumous pardon — First Amendment News 405
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A New York three-judge criminal court panel convicted comedian Lenny Bruce of "word crimes" in the Cafe Au Go Go in 1964. In 2003, he was pardoned by the governor.
‘Weaponized rage’: Madness in the marketplace of ideas, the college presidents’ controversy continues — First Amendment News 404
Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins and is editorially independent from FIRE.
Special post: Stephen Rohde, ‘University Presidents Were Right to Condemn Hate Speech and Defend Free Speech’ — First Amendment News 403.1
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Special guest post by Stephen Rohde on the string of controversies regarding free speech and anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Bad moon rising? The Insurrection Act in times of a regime of revenge — First Amendment News 403
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One way to ominously expand his executive powers to attack his political enemies would be for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and apply it with a vengeance.