Read the latest information and opinion from IFS experts in defense of the First Amendment.
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The United States Supreme Court issued a major free speech decision expanding the protections for political speech against regulatory intimidation by New York state. ...
As a former Ohio judge, former Ohio deputy attorney general, and a current free-speech litigator, I want our state’s laws to offer strong protection ...
One of the few politically unifying events of the past year was the shared response to then-presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s plan to abolish anonymity on social ...
Sixty years ago, on June 1, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark First Amendment decision in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Flowers.
Congressional Democrats in 2021 attempted to ram through a series of draconian election reforms aimed at harassing and limiting the speech of donors to their ...
Pennsylvania’s state House State Government Committee advanced a dangerous, anti-free speech bill guaranteed to invite litigation paid for by Keystone State taxpayers.
Secret investigations into thoughtcrimes–prompted by classmates surveilling and reporting each other for expressing the wrong ideas.
Institute for Free Speech attorneys say the squishy test courts currently apply to government censorship of third parties doesn’t sufficiently protect free speech, and ...
South Carolina currently provides no protection against a key threat to free speech: strategic lawsuits against public participation, or “SLAPPs.”
Attorneys for the Institute for Free Speech filed suit to end disclosure of small donations made through online "conduits" like WinRed or ActBlue
Institute for Free Speech attorneys filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Fresh Vision OP to challenge laws that threaten jail time for exercising ...
The decision, years in the making, affirms that candidates have a First Amendment right to discuss issues and policies without fear of penalty for ...
The recently-won settlement ensures that Yolo County (CA) Public Library can’t silence views that conflict with library officials’ ideology
The lawsuit, filed by Institute for Free Speech attorneys, aims to halt viewpoint discrimination by New York City public schools
Attorneys for the Institute for Free Speech filed the lawsuit after Colorado lawmakers silenced and chilled speech during recent public hearings on “Tiara’s Law”
The brief argues that limits on such expenditures violate the First Amendment because the rule is not narrowly tailored to prevent quid pro quo ...
The Institute for Free Speech brought the case on Gilley’s behalf after the University of Oregon Division of Equity and Inclusion blocked him on ...
The Institute has just filed an appeal brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to challenge unconstitutional policies that chill ...
The brief says the First Amendment generally prohibits the government from privately soliciting removal of lawful political speech
We’re Hiring! Senior Attorney – Institute for Free Speech – Washington, DC or Virtual Office The Institute for Free Speech is hiring a Senior Attorney with ...
In the News Washington Times: Lawsuit accuses Georgia school board of censoring moms at meetings By Sean Salai Two mothers have sued a Georgia school board ...
New from the Institute for Free Speech Forsyth County Schools Sued for Censorship at Board Meetings Concerned parents in Forsyth County want school officials ...
Congress People United for Privacy: PUFP Letter in Response to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration’s July 19 hearing on “The DISCLOSE Act” ...
The Courts Washington Free Beacon: Court Overrules School District That Banned Father Who Exposed Obscene Library Books By Elizabeth Troutman A federal judge on Wednesday ...
In the News Epoch Times: Every Senate Dem but Sinema Backs Bill to Compromise First Amendment Freedom of Speech By Mark Tapscott First introduced in ...
In the News Bucks County Courier Times: Pennsbury settles free speech lawsuit. What it could mean to other districts By Peg Quann The impact of ...
In the News Insider: Ted Cruz: Democrats used to support free speech, but ‘unfortunately, that time has long since passed’ By Hanna Kang David Keating, ...
We’re Hiring! Senior Attorney – Institute for Free Speech – Washington, DC or Virtual Office The Institute for Free Speech is hiring a Senior Attorney with ...
In the News Philadelphia Inquirer: The Pennsbury School District will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over four men’s curtailed public comments By Maddie Hanna The ...