Golden West College agrees to eliminate “hateful behavior” restrictions and protect First Amendment expression after previously threatening students for conservative viewpoints

Judge Wolf grants permanent injunction, ruling that the law's contribution limit and disclosure provision for independent expenditure groups violate First Amendment rights

Amicus brief details the First Amendment violations of Oxnard’s contribution limits

Institute for Free Speech amicus brief explains how Arizona’s controversial donor disclosure rules conflict with the state constitution

Institute for Free Speech lawsuit seeks to end disclosure rules that burden First Amendment rights while exposing advocacy groups and their vendors to harassment ...

The $191,000 fee to be paid to Professor Bruce Gilley’s legal team, led by the Institute for Free Speech, brings the University of Oregon’s ...

Settlement with former school board officials marks an important step forward as broader viewpoint discrimination lawsuit against city education speech restrictions continues

The Institute’s amicus brief explains how the lower court improperly evaded First Amendment scrutiny and used suspect evidence to justify speech restrictions

Golden West College threatened students with discipline for statements calling illegal immigration a “cancer” and Hamas “a terrorist organization”

State stipulates to fee award after federal court ruling that Kansas cannot regulate community group Fresh Vision OP as a PAC for occasional candidate ...

Railing against Citizens United is the ultimate act of virtue signaling. It’s an intellectually lazy tactic devoid of meaning but aimed at broadcasting anti-elite sentiment. Ironically, ...

The Federal Election Commission’s current inability to execute key duties benefits no one. But President Trump has the power to begin restoring the FEC to a ...

Powerful political allies get a pass, while dissenters are crushed with massive fines. This isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s the point.

It is often suggested that the true test of one’s commitment to free speech and the First Amendment comes when one is faced with ...

Without quorum, the Commission cannot hold hearings, issue rules, or enforce campaign finance laws and regulations. But this temporary loss of a quorum is not ...

This misconception has stubbornly dominated American political thinking for decades. Recent electoral contests have delivered the latest in a series of stunning repudiations of ...

This piece originally appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on April 17, 2025. Missourians should feel free to speak their minds on matters of public ...

Passing the South Carolina Public Expression Protection Act would give South Carolinians the speech protections they deserve.

Protecting the right to speak freely without fear of meritless lawsuits should be a priority for Michigan lawmakers.

Increasingly, Montana finds itself falling behind in a nation that has seen tremendous progress in bolstering safeguards against this form of lawfare.

We’re Hiring! Senior Attorney – Institute for Free Speech – Washington, DC or Virtual Office The Institute for Free Speech is hiring a Senior Attorney with ...

In the News Washington Times: Lawsuit accuses Georgia school board of censoring moms at meetings By Sean Salai Two mothers have sued a Georgia school board ...

New from the Institute for Free Speech Forsyth County Schools Sued for Censorship at Board Meetings Concerned parents in Forsyth County want school officials ...

Congress People United for Privacy: PUFP Letter in Response to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration’s July 19 hearing on “The DISCLOSE Act” ...

The Courts Washington Free Beacon: Court Overrules School District That Banned Father Who Exposed Obscene Library Books By Elizabeth Troutman A federal judge on Wednesday ...

In the News Epoch Times: Every Senate Dem but Sinema Backs Bill to Compromise First Amendment Freedom of Speech By Mark Tapscott First introduced in ...

In the News Bucks County Courier Times: Pennsbury settles free speech lawsuit. What it could mean to other districts By Peg Quann The impact of ...

In the News Insider: Ted Cruz: Democrats used to support free speech, but ‘unfortunately, that time has long since passed’ By Hanna Kang David Keating, ...

We’re Hiring! Senior Attorney – Institute for Free Speech – Washington, DC or Virtual Office The Institute for Free Speech is hiring a Senior Attorney with ...

In the News Philadelphia Inquirer: The Pennsbury School District will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over four men’s curtailed public comments By Maddie Hanna The ...

Amicus brief explains that the First Amendment does not protect viewpoint censorship by large social media platforms

The Institute for Free Speech is happy to announce the addition of two new attorneys to its legal team in recent months, Brett Nolan ...

This week, Katrina vanden Heuvel penned an op-ed in The Washington Post alleging that “big and dark money” are “drown[ing] out” the voices of ...

Following the Senate’s confirmation of former Representative Tom Price as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in early February 2017, all eyes have ...