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The Biden Administration’s Assault on Free Speech

By: Philip Hamburger July 28, 2023
Among the revelations in the so-called Twitter files was that government officials pressured social-media companies to censor posts unfavorable to the Biden administration. The White House has denied this, insisting that companies like Meta and Twitter adopted content-moderation policies on their own. But internal documents newly released by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the…
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If John Marshall Is Right, Chevron Is Wrong!

July 28, 2023
Blogs
[The following is an abridged transcript of a speech given by Thomas Dupree on July 13, 2023, during the Hamburger-Frankfurter Debate at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Mr. Dupree was assigned the ‘Chevron must be overturned!’ side of the debate.] In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall famously stated that “[i]t is emphatically the province…
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Click, Share, Retweet… DELETE: Unconstitutional Government Censorship of Social Media Platforms

July 21, 2023
Blogs
 Are social media platforms truly “social?” Twitter’s mission statement reads, “To give everyone power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Facebook’s mission statement includes, “the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” If these platforms were intentionally designed with missions to build a more cohesive community through the free flow…
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Missouri v. Biden: The Crossroads Between Misinformation and Free Speech

By: Casey Norman July 18, 2023
Judge Terry Doughty’s Fourth of July issuance of a preliminary injunction in the case Missouri v. Biden has drawn powerful reactions, earning the federal judge a slew of both fans and critics. I recommend my colleague John Vecchione’s discussion of the case and Judge Doughty’s ruling, which found that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their First Amendment…
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Patently Unjust: How the Patent and Trademark Office Is Attempting to Limit Criticism of the Government

By: Varun Mandgi July 14, 2023
Blogs
When Senator Marco Rubio quipped during a 2016 rally held in Salem, Virginia, that former President Donald Trump had “small hands” and suggested, “you know what they say about people with small hands,” very few Americans thought this interaction would make or break the democracy they have come to cherish. Yet these words, echoed in…
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Free Speech on the Fourth of July

By: John J. Vecchione July 12, 2023
On the Fourth of July, a preliminary injunction issued against the government protecting the rights of all Americans to enter and be heard in the modern public square that is social media without government interference. Judge Terry A. Doughty, in Missouri v. Biden, issued an order and an opinion preventing the administration from “urging, encouraging, pressuring,…
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