Jameel Jaffer
@JameelJaffer
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Director, @knightcolumbia. Editor, @just_security. Formerly @ACLU. This is my personal account. Also: @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @[email protected].
Joined December 2011
Huge media companies settling bogus lawsuits by Trump will only result in more lawsuits, less press freedom, and less accountability to the people. Important op-ed by @jameeljaffer of @knightcolumbia
https://t.co/grH7Zpjqgo
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The cover of this forthcoming book by @omarelakkad is not only aesthetically great, but also captures an idea that drives so much of our political discourse and the trajectory of our politics. It happens over and over and over.
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WaPo reporters are amazing. Their editors, not so much. 1. Syria and Myanmar are not States Parties. The Court has no jurisdiction over crimes committed by their nationals in their territory. *The OTP is investigating crimes that crossed into Bangladesh (a State Party). š§µ
From the Editorial Board: The International Criminal Court is not the venue to hold Israel to account
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Knight First Amendment Institute's @JameelJaffer looks at the major press freedom issues of the first Trump term in previewing his second -- and what Congress could do to protect journalists before he even takes office
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X doesnāt work for @knightcolumbia in the way Twitter once did, and Musk has put X in conflict with the values the Knight Institute is tasked with defending, so we're putting the Institute's X account on hold and going to Bluesky instead. More here.
knightcolumbia.org
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.@realDonaldTrump deserves full information about the Press Act. The legislation comes at the right time as independent journalism and news platforms @X and Truth Socialā¦ Expand opportunities for reporting diverse voices that strengthen democracy.Ā Iād welcome the chance to
"Veteran investigative journalist @C__Herridge would love a face-to-face conversation with President-elect Donald Trump about freedom of the press, and remind him about how her own work benefited him eight years ago." https://t.co/cLRVLy7jNu
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This is how Narendra Modi crushed charities, civic groups, think tanks and more. It is a terrible idea and it is nuts that any Democrat (frankly any American lawmaker with allegiance to our Constitution) would consider voting for it.
A frequent tool of dictators is to label political opposition groups as "terrorist groups" and shut them down. This bill - up for a vote this week - would give Trump the power to do just that. It's disastrous. And apparently there are House Democrats CONSIDERING VOTING FOR IT!
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Lately, my inbox has been full of messages from fellow Democrats like this: āHope you enjoy being deported.ā Itās not substantive, just cruelāsmallness and bigotry posing as strength and strategy. What is wrong with you?
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A federal court in Texas has already held that these kinds of restrictions on criticism of Israel are unconstitutional, btw.
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The proposed bill that would restrict criticism of Israel--called the Antisemitism Awareness Act, of course--is an affront to the First Amendment, and no legislator who cares about free speech should be associated with it.
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I wrote for ā¦@GuardianUSā© about what the courts are likely to do with Trumpās endless list of speech-suppressive ideas.
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In todayās Guardian, @JameelJaffer considers whether the First Amendment will be a real obstacle to Trumpās censorial agenda. No one should take the answer for granted, he warns. More at the link:
theguardian.com
With Trump in the Oval Office, the US supreme court will find itself having to answer questions it has sidestepped for years
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I wrote for ā¦@GuardianUSā© about what the courts are likely to do with Trumpās endless list of speech-suppressive ideas.
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Ted Olson was a ā¦@knightcolumbiaā© board member from (almost) the very beginning. Iāll miss him as a friend and mentor and (formidable) intellectual sparring partner. https://t.co/E2rWx00v9g
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It took almost two years, but together with @knightcolumbia we have agreed to a settlement in our lawsuit against the Biden Admin that we believe provides vital First Amendment protections for all Americans & an important limitation on Executive power. 1/ https://t.co/AfXqGx4yzU
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Reversing itself, the Treasury Department said U.S. sanctions do not prohibit hearing from foreigners deemed to be terrorists or other offenders.
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It turns out that the most cynical takes on the Biden/Blinken 30-day deadline were not nearly cynical enough.
Surprise, surprise. No consequences for Israel failing to address humanitarian crisis of its own making in Gaza after 30 days. Matt Lee: You guys are the ones that gave them a 30-day deadline, itās hard to see your answers as anything other than giving them a pass Patel: If we
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What will the regulation of social media look like in the Trump era? What guard rails will the 1A impose? @evelyndouek and I explore some of these questions--and the perennial question of whether 1A law *is* the modern Lochner--in our new HLR Essay.
harvardlawreview.org
Introduction ā[T]he First Amendment,ā Justice Kagan declared in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, one of the five platform First Amendment cases the Court decided this...
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