Biden Wants To Avoid a First Amendment Showdown Over WikiLeaks
U.S. prosecutors are looking to wriggle out of an espionage trial for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
U.S. prosecutors are looking to wriggle out of an espionage trial for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.
As Joe Biden gives his speech, the audience will include this reminder of the journalist he’s trying to jail.
An escalation in the war between people who publish secrets and those who seek to keep them.
The WikiLeaks founder already has spent as much time in a London prison as DOJ lawyers say he is likely to serve if convicted in the U.S.
The Biden administration's interference with bookselling harks back to a 1963 Supreme Court case involving literature that Rhode Island deemed dangerous.
The appeals court dismissed a civil rights lawsuit by a Laredo gadfly who was arrested for asking questions.
Instead of indulging in politically risky sedition prosecutions of the black press, the government relied on indirect methods of behind-the-scenes manipulation and intimidation.
Stella Assange discusses the imprisonment of her husband on the third episode of Just Asking Questions.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
After the student paper pressed university officials for interviews, its faculty adviser got into trouble.
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Unlike calling Trump's stolen-election fantasy "the Big Lie," his lawyer's statements were demonstrably false assertions of fact.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
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"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
The former president wanted to "open up" defamation laws. The governor of Florida is about to try.
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Contrary to the Supreme Court's First Amendment precedents, Donald Trump thinks harsh criticism of the president should be actionable.
Although Rupert Murdoch admits that Lou Dobbs and other hosts "endorsed" the "stolen election" narrative, Fox's lawyers insist that is not true.
In an open letter, they condemned the paper's coverage of trans issues. But their note is more about what questions journalists are not allowed to ask.
A government-supported organization's controversial ratings of online news sources illustrate the challenge of deciding what qualifies as disinformation.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
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The Justice Department’s discretion is the only thing that protects them from a similar fate.
The open letter warns the indictment “threatens to undermine America’s First Amendment and the freedom of the press.”
The two fake news organizations want the Supreme Court to review the case of a man who was arrested for making fun of the police.
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Perhaps Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has the mark of a great story—everyone can find cause both to love it and to hate it.
In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author and those involved in the book's publication to be put to death.
Virginia lawmakers passed a bill allowing parents to opt out of certain lessons, which was vetoed by then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
Turning terrible events into art is good, actually.
As recently as 2011, a school board in Missouri barred the book from the curriculum and ordered it confined to a special section of the school's library.
Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California.
San Francisco port officials seized copies of Howl and Other Poems in 1957, accusing publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti of obscenity.
A publishing company ironically removed the original version of the Ray Bradbury novel depicting mass media censorship.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and other titles shot up Amazon's bestseller list after being self-censored by Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
Pilkey's whole gag is that the censorial impulse is ridiculous and kids instinctively know it should be mocked.
Up through the 1950s, federal agents kept confiscating books they deemed obscene. But in 1959, a judge ruled that D.H. Lawrence's book deserved First Amendment protection.
Leviathan was a challenge to the governing independence of the Holy See.
Where there's demand for books, the internet will supply them.
"They don't want the defendant to tell this side of the story," says Clark Neily of the Cato Institute.