If confirmed, nominees Ashley Stow and Andrew Woodson would crucially restore the FEC to four of its six commissioners, allowing the body to resume ...

The brief warns that allowing a lawsuit by 5,600 lobstermen over industry criticism would expose speakers to liability from “thousands or even millions of ...

University of Texas threatened Professor Richard Lowery over DEI criticism; Fifth Circuit’s outlier standard leaves him and other public employees without essential legal protections

The Augusta School Board repeatedly silenced Nicholas Blanchard for criticizing board members and school officials during public comment periods

Amicus brief warns that treating FEC deadlocks as “inaction” invites lawfare and chills speech

Federal appeals court finds city unconstitutionally censored citizens’ requests for use of “Citizen Flag Pole” under guise of “government speech”

Today’s Supreme Court oral argument in NRSC v. FEC ably illustrated that limits on coordinated political party expenditures violate the First Amendment

New Institute for Free Speech filing highlights that the burdensome requirement infringes on free speech rights and provides voters with no relevant information

Case on behalf of The Buckeye Institute could extend Supreme Court’s donor privacy protections to every charity in America

Judge grants preliminary injunction to block rules that require advocacy groups to publicly disclose their vendors, thereby exposing those vendors to harassment

Before Buckley v. Valeo, American citizens faced criminal charges for urging Nixon’s impeachment.

The Constitution doesn’t require citizens to accept harassment as the price of civic engagement.

The SEC’s ‘pay to play’ rule is an unconstitutional infringement on the right to participate in politics.

The First Amendment protects speech that most of us might find offensive or even reprehensible, and it directly applies to the question of whether ...

A Biden appointee holds the agency’s nonprofit rules to be unconstitutional.

All Arizonans deserve the ability to engage in democracy without worrying that their civic participation will jeopardize their family’s safety.

Campaign finance regulations have created a system where one of the most regulated activities in America is political speech itself.

Now that Oregon has shielded campaign participants, it should protect donors. The time for comprehensive donor privacy reform is now.

Protecting elected officials from political violence is rightly a priority. But we must also extend some privacy protections to the citizens who support them.

As the state considers protecting lawmakers, it should also address a vulnerability that puts tens of thousands of ordinary New Jerseyans at risk: the ...

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 ...