Category: First Amendment

Leading Colorado Democrat Introduces Bill to Censor Internet Communication

Commentary A leader in the Democrat-controlled Colorado Senate has introduced a bill that would largely end freedom of the press as we know it. Senate Bill 21-132 is titled the “Colorado Digital Communications Act.” The measure would require Internet platforms to register in Colorado and comply with content censorship. The censorship would include far-ranging restrictions…


Iowa University Officials Denied Immunity for Targeting Christian Student Group

University of Iowa administrators can be held personally accountable for denying official recognition to a Christian students group because of its faith-based leadership policy, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. A panel of three circuit judges ruled in favor of Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC), holding that the university officials do not…


‘We’re Not in Communist China, This Is the United States’: California Pastor Fights for Right to Worship

A church in Pasadena, California, has won a major court battle that allows them to open up amid strict lockdowns. After a district court rejected the church’s appeal to for relief, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church stating that California officials cannot bar churches from holding indoor services amid the CCP (Chinese Communist…


Don’t Force Workers to Join a Union

Commentary In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning $2.25 an hour, the minimum wage. I had to surrender about 15 cents of this meager hourly wage to a union I was forced to join. I could never understand what a union was doing…


Supreme Court Sides With Students Seeking $1 Nominal Damages in Campus Speech Case

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Georgia college should be held accountable for its now-rescinded policies that prevented two former students from speaking on campus about their Christian faith. In an 8-1 opinion (pdf) in which Chief Justice John Roberts was the sole dissenter, the high court said just one dollar in compensation,…


California Lawmaker Takes Aim at ‘Cancel Culture’ With New Bills

As the national conversation about “cancel culture” continues to heat up, one Southern California lawmaker is tackling the issue through policy. State Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) said her constituents have told her they experience “cancel culture” shaming for their political affiliations. They worry they’ll be discriminated against in various ways for their affiliations. In…


Top Republican Compares House Democrats’ Letters to Deplatform Fox News With CCP Censorship

The top Republican House member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday criticized an attempt by House Democrats to pressure television carriers to deplatform Fox News and two conservative cable news channels. Ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) expressed her concerns regarding letters sent by two Democratic members on the panel to 12 cable, satellite, and streaming companies….


Top Republican Compares House Democrats’ Attempt to Deplatform Fox News With CCP Censorship

The top Republican House member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday criticized an attempt by House Democrats to pressure television carriers to deplatform Fox News and two conservative cable news channels. Ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) expressed her concerns regarding letters sent by two Democratic members on the panel to 12 cable, satellite, and streaming companies….


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…