A Brooklyn coffee shop banned a pro-Israel congressman and faced a DOJ investigation within days. The legal theory is thin. The chilling effect is the point.
A federal jury convicted three ICE protesters — including a U.S. Army veteran — of felony conspiracy for a 2025 demonstration in Spokane. Legal experts say the prosecution isn't about these three defendants. It's about making organized dissent too expensive to sustain.
Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for Facebook memes about Charlie Kirk. The government settled for $835,000 rather than defend that arrest in court — which is the clearest possible signal of what the government knew it had done.
The DOJ served grand jury subpoenas on Wall Street Journal reporters over coverage of the Iran war. The target isn't a leaker — it's the press freedom to report on a war Congress never authorized.
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Philosophy professor Idris Robinson is suing Texas State after the university terminated his contract following a pro-Israel social media campaign that targeted him for an off-campus talk about Palestine.
A federal judge struck down Pentagon restrictions requiring media organizations to pledge not to gather information without official authorization, ruling the policy violated the First Amendment.
A court ruled that police officers who sued Afroman for mocking their failed drug raid have no grounds to silence him — a crucial First Amendment victory as law enforcement increasingly uses civil suits to punish critics.
Federal courts are dealing a series of defeats to universities and advocacy groups trying to silence criticism of Israel by redefining it as antisemitism, with judges ruling that pro-Palestinian speech is constitutionally protected.