A federal judge ruled the administration violated the First and Fifth Amendments by trying to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech — but the ruling's significance lies in what it reveals about the legal architecture the government was trying to build.
The State Department's Cuba security report doesn't document a foreign threat — it names American activists, labor organizers, and journalists who criticized U.S. policy. That's not intelligence. It's a blacklist.
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 Trump administration sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for documenting Gaza war crimes, marking an unprecedented attack on international human rights mechanisms and free speech.
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.
A federal appeals court just ruled that a California principal violated a 6-year-old's free speech rights when he threatened to call police over her Black Lives Matter drawing.