LA City Council bans N-word at public meetings, triggering legal threats
Watch your mouth! The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to ban the use of the N-word and C-word at public meetings — triggering free speech backlash and the threat ...
Tag: First Amendment
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs files motion for acquittal or retrial over prostitution-related charges
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team filed a motion seeking an acquittal or a retrial over the two prostitution-related charges the rapper was convicted of earlier this month. According to court ...
Trump Administration Issues Guidance to Protect Religious Expression in Federal Workforce
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday sent guidance to federal agencies requiring them to protect the religious expression of federal workers — a striking departure from the previous ...
Documents: Biden AG and White House Conspired to Chill Local Parents’ School Board Protests
Damning revelations in federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s Justice Department sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting ...
Call of Duty maker can’t be held responsible for Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooter, lawyer argues
A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary ...
Rubio announces US will bar foreign censors from getting visas
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the US will no longer allow foreign government officials “who are complicit in censoring Americans” from obtaining visas. “It is ...
Wisconsin man fired for refusing to use preferred pronouns appeals to Trump administration
Spencer Wimmer, a Wisconsin man, is asking the Trump administration to intervene after he says he was fired for refusing to use preferred pronouns that conflict with a person’s biological sex—forcing him, ...
Judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights in lawsuit over teen’s death
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind ...
Trump’s executive order mandating proof of citizenship to vote blocked by federal judge after flurry of legal setbacks
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday blocked a portion of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity, specifically provisions related to providing documentary proof of citizenship before ...
NYC pol accused of blocking critics from posting on her social media and dares naysayer to take her to court: ‘Not democratic’
A Brooklyn Assembly member is allegedly blocking locals from making posts she doesn’t like on her social media pages — and she even dared one critic to take her to ...
