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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said, “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods." However, government outsourcing censorship to social media is unconstitutional.

New York Post, March 1, 2024 Shed a tear for America’s rapidly vanishing freedoms by James Bovard “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song.  Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance for […]
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The Two and Only — Brian Wilson and James Bovard S3 Ep 5 Imagining a Nikki Haley Presidency as only The Two and Only can! Talk show legend Brian Wilson and award-winning author, Jim Bovard parse the possibilities in this latest episode! Listen or Download the MP3 at this link We discussed Haley’s passion for […]
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What does the First Amendment require for free speech at American public universities? Harvard law expert Cass R. Sunstein wades into the debate, with some perhaps surprising outcomes.
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Lawsuits accusing top US universities of harboring antisemitism all originate from one source: a corporate law firm that fielded the pro-settler ex-US ambassador to Israel, and which was registered as a foreign agent of an Israeli principal as recently as 2021. The firm now represents professional Israel lobby activists posing as victimized “Jewish students” and seeking to crush the free speech rights of Palestine solidarity activists. The fallout from December 5 House Committe on Antisemitism hearings has already cost University […]

Is Free Speech a Relic in America? by James Bovard  December 12, 2023 Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” That verdict was ratified by a federal appeals court […]
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New York Post, December 1, 2023 More nails in the coffin of Biden’s censorship regime James Bovard With each passing month, we are getting closer to the Custer’s Last Stand for federal censors. But will free speech triumph in time to prevent the feds from secretly rigging the 2024 presidential election? At a House Weaponization […]

From the Brian Wilson Writes Substack: The beloved “Two and Only” return for a look at what’s left of the First Amendment, how it’s being abused, what Jim Bovard plans to do about it and how you can help! Listen by clicking here
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Elon Musk responded to the news by pointing out that the memes in question “had no material impact on the election,” and then asked “What prison sentences were given out to those who suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop information?”  “That *did* have a material impact on the election.”

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe recently went undercover in Lahaina, Hawaii, and had his First Amendment violated by Maui police who told him that he could not film beyond a certain boundary and that the order was given by Governor Josh Green who had issued an emergency proclamation.