Category: Institute for Free Speech

University of Oregon Accused By Advocacy Groups of Undermining Free Speech

The University of Oregon (UO) is under fire from two free speech advocacy groups, who claim it is infringing on freedom of speech and expression. The university’s Division of Equity and Inclusion is being sued for blocking a critic on Twitter, even as the institution is being pressured to stop imposing an ideological litmus test…


Every Senate Dem but Sinema Backing Bill to Compromise First Amendment Freedom of Speech

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is the only one of the Senate’s 48 Democrats whose name does not appear as a co-sponsor of the “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2021,” also known as the DISCLOSE Act. First introduced in its current version in February 2021 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.),…


Every Senate Dem but Sinema Backs Bill to Compromise First Amendment Freedom of Speech

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is the only one of the Senate’s 48 Democrats whose name doesn’t appear as a co-sponsor of the “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act of 2021,” also known as the DISCLOSE Act. First introduced in its current version in February 2021 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the…


Democrats’ H.R. 1 Has ‘Unconstitutional’ Limits on First Amendment: Free Speech Group

House Democrats’ massive voter registration and campaign procedure reform bill gives federal bureaucrats vast new power to control political speech, according to an analysis of the proposal by the Institute for Free Speech (IFS). “All of the provisions we analyzed are bad ideas, some of them are plainly unconstitutional, and some of them it would…


Democrats’ H.R. 1 Sets ‘Unconstitutional’ Limits on 1st Amendment: Free Speech Group

House Democrats’ massive voter registration and campaign procedure reform bill gives federal bureaucrats vast new power to control political speech, according to an analysis of the proposal by the Institute for Free Speech (IFS). “All of the provisions we analyzed are bad ideas, some of them are plainly unconstitutional, and some of them it would…