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Hate Crime Hoaxes and How Colleges Handle Them
My latest article in The Daily Caller talks about this past spring’s rash of incidents of hateful expression at Oberlin College in Ohio—at least some of which turned out to be hoaxes committed by students who wanted to “troll” the campus. Such hoaxes have been a recurring problem on campuses. In my article, I explain that in addition to alarming campus community members, these incidents are often seized upon as an excuse to clamp down on protected speech.
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VICTORY! Charges dropped against TN woman cited for using skeletons in Christmas decorations
Less than a month after ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Germantown, Tennessee, the city has dismissed charges against a resident for keeping skeletons in her yard after Halloween.
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The government wants to financially bludgeon those seeking to defend constitutional rights
A new White House directive threatens to make it prohibitively expensive for Americans to defend the Constitution in court.
²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø demands answers from Trump admin officials on arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested a lawful permanent resident who has been involved in activism related to the current conflict in Gaza.