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The legal protections afforded to free speech and the potential impact of hate crime laws on these protections.
Federal authorities point to a mix of existing criminal statutes—threats, stalking, obstruction/conspiracy, and laws that bar releasing protected personal information with intent to threaten or incite...
ICE can lawfully give orders to — and in narrow circumstances detain or arrest — U.S. citizens or others who are actively obstructing or impeding immigration enforcement, but that authority is limited...
The alleged military-law violations center on Senator Mark Kelly’s participation in a November video in which he and five other former service members and intelligence officers told active-duty person...
U.S. law does not categorically ban criticism of Israel as antisemitic, but federal agencies and some legislatures increasingly rely on the IHRA working definition—which lists examples that can classi...
The dominant legal standard for when political speech becomes criminal incitement is the Brandenburg test: speech is unprotected only if it is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless actio...
There are very few direct precedents for reducing a retired officer’s grade or pension as punishment for political speech after retirement; past uses of the retirement‑grade review process have typica...
Federal prosecutors have long relied on a cluster of criminal statutes—most prominently 18 U.S.C. §§ 111, 1114, 115, 1501, and 1503, plus civil-rights and conspiracy provisions such as § 242 and § 372...
Over the past five years, campus battles over Turning Point USA (TPUSA) recognition have produced a mixed record: several student governments have rejected TPUSA bids while university administrations ...
State legislatures justify limiting local cooperation with ICE in schools and places of worship by invoking core constitutional protections—principally the Fourth Amendment’s guard against unreasonabl...
When protesters target a congregation for its beliefs, law enforcement and prosecutors can pursue ordinary disruption or trespass charges and — if evidence shows bias against a protected characteristi...
Courts and legislatures have split responsibility and produced a patchwork of outcomes: many jurisdictions treat drawn or computer-generated visual depictions of minors in sexual contexts as criminal ...
A partisan or explicitly alternative Super Bowl halftime performance would collide with contractual, commercial, and reputational pressures that make the slot far more than a 13‑minute concert; the ha...
A clear, legally resilient challenge to an alleged unlawful ICE vehicle stop or use of force rests on three pillars: careful, non‑interfering documentation; immediate preservation and legalization of ...
When public figures amplify unproven allegations during active criminal proceedings they create legal exposure—primarily defamation suits and, in narrow circumstances, federal penalties for false info...
Three primary legal avenues exist to try to obtain surveillance video and official records after an ICE detention at a school: federal FOIA requests to the responsible DHS components (ICE, CBP and DHS...
News organizations have published original bystander and agent-shot footage of ICE operations on a mix of mainstream outlets and government-hosted libraries — examples include cell-phone clips first p...
Scholarly discussion treats “racist speech” as a category defined by content, context, and the harms it performs—often focusing on slurs, denigration, and speech that contributes to social subordinati...
10 U.S.C. §1370 sets the statutory framework for determining a retired commissioned officer’s grade and pay by requiring retirement “in the highest permanent grade in which such officer is determined ...
Securing exclusive rights to a social movement name or slogan for use in a political campaign is legally possible in narrow circumstances but usually fails because movement phrases are treated as info...
Local officials and many municipal leaders have been cautious or noncommittal in publicly responding to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warnings about doxxing and threats to ICE personnel, with ...