“Mr. Turley has written a learned and bracing book, rigorously detailed and unfailingly evenhanded. For all his grim recounting of the assaults on free speech, his is ultimately a buoyant book.” Wall Street Journal

. It is fortunate that Alexis de Tocqueville did not have the misfortune of watching Sen. Warren's questioning of Kennedy because Democracy in America might never have been written. .

. This is a tactic that is infamous in the house where members attack witnesses and then "reclaim their time" before the witness can fully respond. Regardless of the merits, this has all of the deliberative quality of a flash mob beatdown. .

Faculty at the university supported Caravello, and the California Faculty Association claimed Professor Caravello was “kidnapped.” This is not the first time that faculty have rallied around faculty who allegedly took violent action during protests.

. I actually had the naive idea of watching the hearing to hear both sides; to come to a conclusion on the merits. Instead, it was another congressional scream session where diatribes rather than dialogue are the measure.

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Watching the Senate Finance Committee hearing with Secretary Kennedy borders on the bizarre. Senators are pummeling Kennedy with questions and not allowing him to give answers. There was a time when hearings had the quaint purpose of actually eliciting answers and information. .

In the United States, individuals cannot be stripped of their citizenship due their political speech, which would constitute a fundamental denial of their constitutional protections (including under the 14th Amendment and the 1st Amendment).

. I will note that none of the balancing of the facts in the case weighed the relative worth of a Bud beer. For some, the introduction of Bud beer is unconscionable and worthy of the greatest sanction, particularly when Alaska produces its own superior Triple Oak-Aged “A Deal.

. The case presents a clean record for the Court to clarify and amplify prior holdings on the scope of the Excessive Fines Clause. The Institute for Justice has filed a petition with the Supreme Court . .

The Alaska Supreme Court held the state could seize his $95,000 Cessna U206D airplane over a six-pack of beer found in a passenger’s bag of groceries.

Thank you to the @praxiscircle on posting our discussion of the history of free speech and censorship concerns in the EU as well as other subjects. .

. Notably, the court stressed that "the equities strongly favor the government, which on behalf of the public must ensure the proper oversight and management of this multi-billion-dollar fund." It noted that a whistleblower stated that the Biden Administration was just getting.

An appellate court just reversed another district court on an injunction. This time was the injunction over cancelling EPA climate awards. The D.C. Circuit found the lower court abused its discretion and any claims must go to the Court of Federal Claims.

. This is why Vance's Munich speech was so important in the global fight for free speech. The "New World Order" in Europe has little room for comedians or dissenters.

The arrest of comedian Graham Linehan is only the latest example of how the censorship in the UK is no laughing matter. He is not the first comedian to be arrested in Europe under expanding speech codes.

. These deportees are largely individuals who engaged in criminal conduct. However, courts ruled that some countries, such as Afghanistan, are considered unsafe for their nationals to be repatriated.

It has been 157 years since the last ship taking convicts from the United Kingdom landed in Australia. Now, in a crushing historical irony, Australia is contracting with the small Pacific island of Nauru to resettle illegal immigrants.

The lawsuit presents a familiar free speech controversy in higher education, where conservatives or libertarians are targeted for their views outside of universities, while those on the left are rarely subject to such campaigns.

As businesses leave Los Angeles, Councilmember Ysabel Jurado is telling Home Depot to "Take your orange aprons somewhere else" with your jobs. It appears that Jurado already has a job.

. Harvard's grading wipes out any distinctions between students in a system that only the character Syndrome would celebrate: .