by Melissa Wen | Apr 17, 2020 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Photo Credit: Bank Phrom/Unsplash Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that arrest warrants had been issued for two journalists for allegedly trespassing on the university’s campus in the course of their reporting on the university’s...
by Laura Follansbee | Nov 5, 2019 | Amicus, Environmental Justice, Freedom of Expression, Legislation
The First Amendment provides some protection for commercial speech, or speech on behalf of a corporation with the intent to produce profit. Despite this, many state governments are entertaining and passing legislation that would prevent plant-based meat and milk...
by Laura Follansbee | Oct 23, 2019 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression, Reproductive Rights, Uncategorized
Our shared Constitution ensures that we need not share a religion. However, in the name of religious liberty for health care providers, recent legal developments are chipping away at the rights of patients to seek medical procedures. Conscience-based objectors have...
by Laura Follansbee | Oct 10, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Freedom of Expression
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that while “prison walls do not form a barrier separating inmates from the protections of the Constitution,” the right to free speech can be curtailed when “legitimate penological concerns” are at stake. The Court’s unwillingness to...
by Harvard Law Development | Mar 8, 2019 | Amicus, Establishment Clause, Freedom of Expression, Guest Author, Human Rights
Guest post by Mandy Fatemi. Mandy is a 3L from Jacksonville, Florida. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the George Washington University and worked in the federal government prior to attending law school. Mandy is passionate about election law, criminal...
by Felipe Hernandez | Mar 5, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Executive Branch, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Immigration, National Security, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice
“In the absence of the governmental checks and balances… the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power… may be in an enlightened citizenry—in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can…protect the values of democratic government.”-...