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
RT @FACoalition: Huge media companies settling bogus lawsuits by Trump will only result in more lawsuits, less press freedom, and less acco….
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RT @ggreenwald: The cover of this forthcoming book by @omarelakkad is not only aesthetically great, but also captures an idea that drives s….
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RT @AdHaque110: WaPo reporters are amazing. Their editors, not so much. 1. Syria and Myanmar are not States Parties. The Court has no ju….
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RT @couragefound: Knight First Amendment Institute's @JameelJaffer looks at the major press freedom issues of the first Trump term in previ….
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X doesn’t 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.
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RT @C__Herridge: .@realDonaldTrump deserves full information about the Press Act. The legislation comes at the right time as independent….
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RT @lpolgreen: This is how Narendra Modi crushed charities, civic groups, think tanks and more. It is a terrible idea and it is nuts that a….
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RT @_waleedshahid: Lately, my inbox has been full of messages from fellow Democrats like this: “Hope you enjoy being deported.” It’s not su….
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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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RT @JameelJaffer: I wrote for @GuardianUS about what the courts are likely to do with Trump’s endless list of speech-suppressive ideas. h….
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RT @knightcolumbia: In today’s Guardian, @JameelJaffer considers whether the First Amendment will be a real obstacle to Trump’s censorial a….
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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 @GuardianUS about what the courts are likely to do with Trump’s endless list of speech-suppressive ideas.
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Ted Olson was a @knightcolumbia board member from (almost) the very beginning. I’ll miss him as a friend and mentor and (formidable) intellectual sparring partner.
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RT @NoeNicholas: It took almost two years, but together with @knightcolumbia we have agreed to a settlement in our lawsuit against the Bide….
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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, it’s hard to see your answers as anything other than giving them a pass. Patel: If we
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RT @glakier: What will the regulation of social media look like in the Trump era? What guard rails will the 1A impose?.@evelyndouek and I….
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Introduction “[T]he First Amendment,” Justice Kagan declared in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, one of the five platform First Amendment cases the Court decided this...
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