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The FEC’s Interpretation of the Press Exemption Is Almost Certainly Unconstitutional
September 14, 2020   •  By Zac Morgan   •  ,

Since the 1980s, the FEC has interpreted the press exemption as serving the needs of the institutional press. This application relies on a likely ...

Coronavirus and Mass Protests Demonstrate Need to Proactively Protect First Amendment Rights
June 30, 2020   •  By Alec Greven   •  , , , ,

It is not enough just to try and protect free speech during an emergency. Rather, it is essential that, in advance of an emergency, ...

Campaign-Finance Laws Created Candidate Bloomberg
February 24, 2020   •  By Brad Smith   •  , , ,

This piece, co-authored with John R. Lott Jr., originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on February 24, 2020.    House Democrats held a ...

Letter to Arizona Department of Child Safety Concerning Ban on Parental Criticism of Agency Actions
July 23, 2019   •  By David Keating   •  , , ,

I write in response to a recent Arizona Republic article that reports at least one instance where your office has instructed a parent to ...

Round-Up: First Amendment Commentary on the Julian Assange Indictment
April 17, 2019   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  ,

The Institute for Free Speech has been tracking discussion in the media on the potential First Amendment implications of the Justice Department’s recent indictment ...

Regulating Speakers Harms First Amendment Rights, Whether They’re Professional Journalists or Not
April 16, 2019   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , , , ,

Those rightly concerned about the creation of a sham “Journalism Ethics Board” should be similarly concerned about the immense powers granted to agencies, like ...

Iowa Legislature’s Denial of Press Credentials to Laura Belin
April 9, 2019   •  By IFS Staff   •  , ,

The Institute for Free Speech has engaged the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP to produce a legal memorandum analyzing whether the Iowa ...

Nieves v. Bartlett
October 9, 2018   •  By IFS Staff   •  , , , , ,

The Supreme Court should reject any mode of analysis for First Amendment retaliatory arrest claims that permits official conduct to go unchecked that is ...

Can Free Speech be Progressive? Only if Progressives Speak Freely.
September 12, 2018   •  By Eric Peterson   •  ,

A recent event at the Cato Institute examined the controversial question, “Can Free Speech be Progressive?” The query was posed by professor Louis Michael ...

The New York Times wants anonymity for the powerful, but no privacy for you
September 7, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  , , ,

President Trump set off another mini-firestorm this week with his reaction to an anonymously-authored New York Times op-ed in which the author “vowed to ...

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