The Seattle Police Department should “offer a sincere, public apology” for how it treated demonstrators in the city after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to a conclusion from a Seattle panel of officers, citizens and accountability experts. The panel completed its final review of how police responded and reacted to months of…

San Francisco State University (SFSU) has found itself in the middle of another free speech controversy after blocking a scheduled event by the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA (TPUSA). The event, titled “How Wokeness is Destroying America,” was to feature TPUSA contributor Jon Root as a speaker. The move by SFSU comes in the wake…

A far-right social media influencer with thousands of followers has been convicted of interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Federal prosecutors said Douglass Mackey, who went by the name of “Ricky Vaughn” online, planned a “coordinated attack” on people’s right to vote by posting images to Twitter that resembled campaign ads for Hillary Clinton. The…

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a religious accommodation case involving a Postal Service worker who didn’t want to deliver packages on Sundays so he could observe the Sabbath. The decision will set new rules for how strict or lenient an employer must be when employees make schedule requests for religious reasons. Facts…

First Amendment free speech protections are supposed to work both ways. Speech everyone likes is not what needs protecting, rather it is controversial speech that the founders of this nation sought to defend. In the American tradition, the answer to this type of speech has been more speech, because when a controversial speaker is given…

Former President Donald Trump returned to New York Thursday, April 13 for a deposition following last week’s historic arraignment related to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The deposition was for a different case, specifically the lawsuit filed against former President Trump and three of his children by New York Attorney…

Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., will have to pay three churchgoers over $270,000 over his in-person church service ban during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Randall Daniel, Theodore Roberts and Sally O’Boyle sued Gov. Beshear back in August of 2020. The three argued the ban violated their right to assemble as guaranteed by the…

A jury trial is set to begin April 17 to determine if Fox News defamed Dominion Voting Systems by claiming the company rigged the 2020 elections. In late March, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied a judgment on the alleged defamation. However, he did rule that Fox’s claims about Dominion were false, stating, “the…

Is the government operating a censorship regime funded by American tax dollars? Some free speech advocates are concerned that the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has overstepped and is infringing on the rights of U.S. citizens. The federal agency, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, shifted its focus after the 2016 presidential…

Gun rights supporters have scored recent victories in courts in California and Texas related to handguns and the ability to carry guns in public. The Senate is currently battling over a legislative response to the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc v. Bruen. That ruling declared it was unconstitutional…