Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) are viewed as two of the most moderate candidates in the Democratic 2020 presidential field. After the most recent Democratic debate, this may need to...
Tag - freedom of speech
Jonathan Decker
House Democrats Vote Unanimously to Silence Conservatives
Last week, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats rammed through H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” in a party-line vote. While Democrats and their media allies claim the House passage of this legislation amounts to...
Battle over Pronouns Presents Growing Threat to First Amendment
Earlier this month, a Virginia high school teacher was fired over his declining to use a transgender student’s preferred gender pronouns. Peter Vlaming had been a French teacher at West Point High School for the last...
Reagan Cool
Hawaii Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Secure Important Court Victory
The pro-life movement had a major victory last week in an unexpected state: Hawaii. A federal judge struck down a recently passed Hawaii law that required pregnancy centers to notify their clients of state-funded...
Kelvey Vander Hart
The Supreme Court Slaps Down Coerced Speech
The Supreme Court released two 5-to-4 decisions this week that have serious First Amendment implications. In both decisions, the Court ruled against government coercing speech. In NIFLA v. Becerra, the Supreme Court...
Shane Vander Hart
WATCH: Pro-Abortion Students Destroy Pro-Life Messages on Wash. Campus
Abortion advocates at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., took it upon themselves to protect the campus from sidewalk chalkings made by a pro-life student group, alleging the chalked messages to be...
WATCH: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Grilled over Censorship of Conservative Content
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in the hot seat in Congress this week, facing an hours-long interrogation by two Senate committees on Tuesday and another by a House committee on Wednesday. Zuckerberg was pressed on a...
Thomas Valentine
Why the First Amendment Is at Much Greater Risk Than the Second
This article was originally posted at Townhall. Our nation’s elites are waging war on the American people, wielding the institutions they’ve spent several decades capturing to punish those who disagree with their...
Frank Cannon
Abortionist Compares Pro-Lifers to Taliban in Federal Court Hearing
Merle Hoffman, a prominent New York abortionist, compared pro-life sidewalk counselors to the Taliban while testifying in court earlier this month, referring to their beliefs as comparable to the terror group’s...
University of Iowa Becomes Latest School to Attack First Amendment
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. It seems almost every day we hear of incidences of censorship at colleges and universities. Whether it’s...
Terry Schilling
Will SCOTUS Heed a 182-Year-Old Warning in Wedding Cake Case?
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In her Liberty Minute titled “Flocks of Sheep,” Helen Krieble quotes a passage from Alexis de Tocqueville’s...
Truth Is the Greatest Weapon Pro-Lifers Have Against Abortion
Alliance Defending Freedom recently announced it is suing Miami University of Ohio on behalf of the campus’ Students for Life chapter. Why? Because an administrative official required them to post “trigger warnings”...
Supreme Court to Decide If California Pro-Life Centers Must Promote Abortion
While it begins its final sitting of 2017 this week, the Supreme Court already has many Americans anticipating the hearing of a case the justices just announced they will take up in 2018. Likely to become a high-profile...
Andrea Moury
Liberal Prof. Ordered to Pay Fine for Destroying Pro-Life Students’ Messages (VIDEO)
A federal court has ordered that a liberal Fresno State University professor must pay $17,000 in damages and undergo training on the First Amendment after he violated the free speech rights of pro-life students on...
A Win for Freedom: USDA Issues New Guidance to Protect First Amendment Rights
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In a Liberty Minute entitled “Less Free,” Helen Krieble discusses the results of a poll which show that most...
Poll Shows Americans Would Deny Free Speech to Opponents — And That’s a Problem
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In her Liberty Minute titled “Do as I Say Not as I Do,” Helen Krieble speaks about fairness and how it should...
Will Christian Baker’s Supreme Court Case Decide Future of First Amendment?
It strikes one as an episode of the Twilight Zone to think that in the present moral climate, as The Washington Post reports, the Department of Justice would argue in defense of a Christian baker’s right to not bake a...
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg
When Government Picks Winners and Losers, Everybody Loses
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Seattle University’s Law School revoked its sponsorship of...
In the Age of Facebook, the First Amendment Is More Important Than Ever
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. The First Amendment is under attack. Of course, that shouldn’t come as a surprise to you as a reader of...