You Can’t Fight Hate With Censorship, Says Former ACLU President

July 30, 2018   •  By Zac Morgan   •  ,

By Zac Morgan Just recently, a federal court in Oregon prevented a public high school from banning an anti-immigration T-shirt from its campus, notwithstanding the ...

Cato: NAACP v. Alabama and Associational Privacy (Podcast) (In the News)

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July 26, 2018   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,

Featuring Bradley A. Smith and Caleb O. Brown What does a decades-old ruling on the First Amendment tell us about the right of associational privacy ...

The IRS gives up power for once, and the Left goes nuts

July 24, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

By Bradley A. Smith The decision to stop gathering some donor information seems, on the surface, like a no-brainer. First, the IRS neither used nor ...

FEC ‘compromise’ could threaten free speech online

July 16, 2018   •  By Eric Peterson   •  , ,

Is your freedom to use the Internet to express your political opinions about to change drastically? Depending on the actions of the Federal Election ...

Google’s political ad ban gives incumbents a big boost

July 16, 2018   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  , ,

By Scott Blackburn and Dann Mead Smith Now that Google is banning political ads in Washington, newer candidates will have a harder time getting their ...

At 60, the NAACP’s victory for privacy rights must not be forgotten

July 3, 2018   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , , ,

Margaret Mead famously observed that “a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” Yet when we consider the rights that protect ...

The Threat to Privacy of Opinion

June 29, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  , ,

Alabama’s political establishment was in a tight spot in the summer of 1956. Public officials were still resisting the command to integrate schools, which ...

Speech laws stand in the way of student gun advocacy

June 27, 2018   •  By Eric Wang   •  , , ,

March for Our Lives, the student group that held nationwide rallies in the spring to decry school shootings, recently began a voter registration campaign ...

Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to reverse Citizens United? No: Government power over campaign spending is a threat to free speech

June 20, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  , ,

In 2009, before the Supreme Court, the government claimed it could ban the publication of a book, if that book contained a single sentence ...

Action against Russian meddling cannot threaten our civil liberties

June 18, 2018   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  ,

The greatest threats to civil liberties often occur in the name of “national security.” History has shown that free political speech is almost always ...

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