Since students accept that the instruction and materials they are seeking constitute government speech, this is fatal to their case, as the government’s own speech “is not restricted by the FreeSpeech Clause.”
Speech Supporting Assassination Has Consequences
Following Kirk’s killing, some individuals openly celebrated online or in the workplace—sparking widespread debate about freespeech.
PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freespeech, said in a legal brief that the Iowa law "is part of a troubling national trend of educational censorship and has already caused substantial harm."
“An academic institution is a place where you can explore ideas, you can have freespeech.”
“So University of Lethbridge, this is what you’ve done, you have failed...,” she added.
Those rules, the complaint contends, have a chilling effect on freespeech for YAF student members “expressing their opinions on gender identity and transgender issues both on and off campus.”
Including from just last week about widespread disastrous resistance to systematic thought in Canada, from freespeech to free trade, unleashing bad policy from muddled theory. Maybe Sean Feucht could sing about it… but not in Canada.
The case involved the FreeSpeech Union (FSU) of Australia and a December 2024 interview with Inman Grant published on the Council of Foreign Relations website.
Constitution’s free-speech protections.
U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston declared Texas Senate Bill 12 an unconstitutional restriction on speech. He permanently enjoined Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing it.
Uphold freespeech. The attacker must be brought to justice,” she added.
Fellow Conservative MP Andrew Lawton described the shooting as an assault against freespeech.
Reiners talks about the Public Order Act and how it’s being used to prosecute people for offensive social media posts, creating a chilling effect on freespeech.
Privacy and freespeech advocates, such as UK-based Open Rights Group, say that a social media ban for under-16s would be an ineffective response to online harms.
The FreeSpeech Union wrote on X that it is suing the Metropolitan Police for what it said was Linehan’s “wrongful arrest and false imprisonment, as well as breaches of his freespeech rights."
Miller’s defense was that she was exercising her rights to freespeech and free exercise of religion, as protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.