firstamendment

Reporters for #CNN & #MSNOW were finally allowed to re-enter the White House grounds around noon Thursday.

Earlier, the #Trump admin had repeatedly barred journalists from those outlets & #Politico from entering the grounds even after a federal judge ordered the immediate restoration of their access.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary

#Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media

#MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/24/business/trump-cnn-politico-msnow-white-house?unlocked_article_code=1.DlE.jAHh.PjpPEPKo06kV&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#DOJ settles with #IBM over alleged #DEI practices

After the “modest” [we’re paying you a pittance just to get you leave us be] $17 million agreement with the company, #Trump admin attempted to paint it as a win saying they expect it to be the first of many such settlements.

#law #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #CivilRights #labor #business #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/16/justice-department-settles-with-ibm-over-alleged-dei-practices/

Well, well, well, looks like we still have the First Amendment after all!

People who were wrongly fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk are winning lawsuits.

We have freedom of speech for as long as we fight for it.

https://newrepublic.com/post/211049/people-punished-charlie-kirk-comments-win-millions
#FirstAmendment #CharlieKirk

A dist. ct in Texas holds Title IX Rule Violates 1st Amendment rights of teachers who want to misgender their students https://buff.ly/4iaFgB0

This is wrong and I have written an entire paper about why: https://buff.ly/3UVrAhd
To start, the teachers' speech is govt speech unprotected by the free speech clause

#law #FediLaw #LGBTQ #education #speech #FirstAmendment

It’s the inhumanity and the cruelty that’s the hallmark of these hateful ghouls. Always.

The NCMEC & and the @ACLU should be suing the shit out of Trump for this. Just because you get federal funding doesn’t take away an organization’s #firstamendment rights

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ncmec-doj-lgbtqia-executive-order

Dozens of Northside High School students were suspended after participating in a protest against the immigration policies of President Donald Trump.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2025/02/10/513462/45-houston-isd-students-suspended-for-being-disruptive-during-protest-on-immigration-last-week/

#CivilRights #Education #EducationNews #HISD #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #Protests #FirstAmendment #HISDProtest #HoustonISD #HoustonISDProtest #NorthsideHighSchool #TrumpImmigrationPolicy

#SCOTUS will decide if #preschools that decline #children of #SameSex couples may receive state #funding

The #SupremeCourt agreed Monday to review a #Colorado #law that requires preschools receiving taxpayer money to enroll children of same-sex couples — setting up an important #FirstAmendment showdown at the high court that pits “#religious” “rights” against #LGBTQ #families.

#heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-couples-preschool?cid=ios_app

Madness #AmericanAutocracy

‘Vaguely Threatening’: #Trump Federal Prosecutor #EdMartin Queries Leading #Medical Journal

The New England Journal of Medicine [#NEJM] received a letter suggesting that it was biased & compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

#law #censorship #FirstAmendment #Constitution #democracy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #AntiIntellectualism #science #medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=68CE025A-703F-4C94-87AA-8D0D7D06D23B

#Trump admin orders enhanced vetting of all #Harvard linked #visa applicants

The US #State Dept ordered all its consular missions overseas to begin additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to #HarvardUniversity for any purpose, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Friday, in a move that significantly expands Trump's persecution of the academic institution.

#law #immigration #RevengePolitics #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-extra-vetting-all-visa-applicants-linked-harvard-2025-05-30/

Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics

#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

100% ILLEGAL

WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?

#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status

The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”

#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/

#MahmoudKhalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time despite objections from the #Trump admin

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Detained #Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump admin’s efforts to keep the father & infant separated by a plexiglass barrier.

#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #FirstAmendment #dissent #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-louisiana-immigration-406c341b8edf1f92dc44695cefcd8f8c

How is this even slightly legal?
(Hint, it’s not)

#Trump Admin Halts #Harvard’s Ability to Enroll #InternationalStudents

The move was a major escalation in the admin’s efforts to pressure the #college to fall in line with Trump’s demands.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #immigration #BrainDrain #AntiIntellectualism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5

In an attempt to circumvent the courts, #Trump Wednesday moved to block nearly all #InternationalStudents from entering the country to attend #HarvardUniversity, in his latest attack on the #school.
In an #ExecutiveOrder Trump declared that it would jeopardize *#NationalSecurity* [his ego] to allow #Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#dictatorship #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-students-ban-foreign-immigrations-a8ab4c05ce284c2625e7f883f8e7e07a

#HarvardUniversity sued the #Trump admin on Friday, <24hrs after #DHS said it would block #international #students from attending the nation’s oldest #university & one of its most prestigious.

#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D207A8FB-3511-4C58-8C06-FB1E6D0F75FE

#NPR & #PublicRadio stations sue #Trump over funding ban

NPR & 3 #Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tues in federal court against the admin over the #ExecutiveOrder purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for #NPR & #PBS.

"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the #FirstAmendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the #legal brief….

#law #Congress #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban

A #Venezuelan musician released a song critical of #Trump, then he was arrested by #ICE.

The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture

#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #AlienEnemiesAct #pretense #FigLeaf #Bullshit #authoritarianism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-criminalization-of-venezuelan-street-culture

#UnitedStates Sen. #AlexPadilla (D-#California) briefly interrupted #DHS Secretary #KristiNoem’s “news” [#propaganda] conference in the #LosAngeles #FBI headquarters, saying he had questions for her. Security pushed him out, telling him to put his hands up.

#Trump #PoliceState #Tyranny #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #immigration #Gestapo

ALT

The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old #veteran #JohnSpitzberg at the Capitol

John Spitzberg joined a #veterans march at the National Mall on March 14 in Washington, DC. The 87-year-old veteran was #arrested June 13 at the US Capitol while protesting #Trump’s birthday parade spectacle.

#AmericanAutocracy #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438406/john-spitzberg-veteran-arrest-trump-parade

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

ALT

Pure #authoritarianism

#Trump repeatedly threatens to violate the #FirstAmendment: says he will prosecute #CNN for its reporting on an app, he plans to prosecute the creator of the anti-ICE app, & he will prosecute CNN for its reporting about the Iran bombing.

#law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #democracy #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy

#AmericanAutocracy

‘Time is running short’: Letters show growing #DOJ ire at #UVA

Over 2 months this spring, *#Justice* Dept officials sent 7 letters to the #UniversityOfVirginia, alleging possible *racial* #discrimination in #admissions & #hiring, inaction to address *#antisemitism* [#FreeSpeech] on campus, & a failure to cleanse #diversity, #equity & #inclusion efforts at the institution.

#law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #tyranny #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/02/university-of-virginia-justice-department-investigation-letters/

Here we go again

#Trump Administration Sues #Harvard Over Accusations of “Antisemitism” [Protests for #Palestinian #HumanRights]

The admin spent months investigating the #school. The two sides had been in talks to negotiate a settlement.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/trump-harvard-antisemitism-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Apparently, it’s Attack-Free-Speech-Day on the #Trump admin’s calendar; welcome to the #FascistStatesOfAmerica

Trump admin challenges #ABC station licenses amid #Kimmel for-real-total-noncontroversy

As the Trump admin pressures ABC to fire #JimmyKimmel, the Trump-aligned #FCC is challenging the network’s #StationLicenses, setting up a #legal battle with ABC’s parent company #Disney.

#law #fascism #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #media #entertainment #comedy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/media/fcc-kimmel-disney-abc-trump-licenses

Judge Rebukes #Hegseth, Says #Pentagon Violated #CourtOrder

A Washington federal judge found the Pentagon violated a court order by reinstating restrictions on #press #access in an opinion that sharply criticized #Defense Sec Pete Hegseth for curtailing #FreeSpeech rights with the nation at #war.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #Trump #dictatorship #fascism #propaganda
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pentagons-revised-press-policy-violates-court-order-judge-says