Knight First Amendment Institute

🚨We've been hearing a lot about "the border" in the news. On 11/13, we’re dropping S3 of our podcast, "Views on First: Speech & the Border," examining the frontiers of censorship and surveillance. Don't miss out—check out our trailer & subscribe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-p…

Ronald Krotoszynski (@UALawSchool) argues that to give voters access to all the information they need to hold elected officials accountable, we must protect government employees’ speech rights, and offers Canada as a model for such protections. knightcolumbia.org/content/reform…

.@CarolineMCorbin (@MiamiLawSchool) lays out the restrictions public school teachers face in speaking about LGBTQ issues and reminds us that the First Amendment protects not only the rights of speakers but also those of their audiences. knightcolumbia.org/content/regula…

Read our latest essay collection, “Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy,” featuring six papers by leading scholars on the law and politics of public employee speech. knightcolumbia.org/research/permi…

Federal appeals court affirms ruling that Caldwell County must hold public bail hearings. texastribune.org/2024/11/16/cal…

To learn more, read our blog post previewing Season 3 here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/speech-th…

ICYMI: Check out our new podcast, "Views on First: Speech & the Border." Each episode, you'll hear from a @knightcolumbia lawyer involved in cases aimed at protecting vital First Amendment rights at the border & beyond. Tune in & subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vie…

@AnupamChander It was our honor to include you in the season. Stay tuned for episode 5.

Looking forward to listening to this @knightcolumbia podcast speech on "Speech and the Border" --and delighted to be featured in one of the upcoming episodes. knightcolumbia.org/blog/speech-th…

Ronald Krotoszynski (@UALawSchool) argues that to give voters access to all the information they need to hold elected officials accountable, we must protect government employees’ speech rights, and offers Canada as a model for such protections. knightcolumbia.org/content/reform…

Nadine Farid Johnson “Marketplace Tech” this week: It’s “critically important” for researchers and journalists to study how the platforms shape public discourse without the threat of legal sanction by large internet companies. Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/und…

In today’s Guardian, @JameelJaffer considers whether the First Amendment will be a real obstacle to Trump’s censorial agenda. No one should take the answer for granted, he warns. More at the link: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wrote for ⁦@GuardianUS⁩ about what the courts are likely to do with Trump’s endless list of speech-suppressive ideas.

Yesterday, in an important victory for free speech, @knightcolumbia and our client, the Foundation for Global Political Exchange, settled our suit against @USTreasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. knightcolumbia.org/cases/the-foun…

Read our blog post previewing Season 3, “Views on First: Speech & the Border” here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/speech-th…

In Ep. 1 of "Views on First: Speech & the Border" – "What are we so afraid of?" – historian @JuliaRoseKraut, activist Ravi Ragbir, & host George Wang explore govt. efforts to bar people from the U.S. because of speech, beliefs, and associations. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spe…

From the war on anarchism to President Trump’s extreme vetting policies, the U.S. government’s practice of using the border as a justification to exclude ideas considered “dangerous” is as American as apple pie.