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Your Guide to This Year’s Constitutional Cases From SCOTUS — Part I0
- July 12, 2023
The Supreme Court issued both liberal and constitutionalist decisions.
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The “Twitter Files” Scandal0
- December 4, 2022
Read about the constitutional and legal issues in Twitter censorship.
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Let’s Stop Paying for Intolerant Universities!0
- November 26, 2018
Politics aside, massive public university funding makes no sense in today’s world.
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Supreme Court’s gay cake case is about a lack of religious tolerance0
- November 21, 2017
This June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The facts of the case are similar to the Oregon one: a same-sex couple tries to buy a custom-decorated wedding cake from a business owned by a Christian baker; they were refused based on the bakers’ religious beliefs. Both couples asked their states’ civil rights agencies to prosecute the offending bakers. Both prosecutions were upheld by state courts.
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Colleges shouldn’t have the right to infringe on free speech0
- August 28, 2017
by Zach Adams This year the Colorado legislature, with broad bipartisan support, banned publicly funded colleges from stifling their students’ right to free speech and assembly. The new law addresses a serious problem that has plagued Colorado. Under the new law, colleges may not punish students because of their expression. “Expression” is defined as “verbal
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Free speech, diversity of through vital to the college experience0
- April 5, 2017
Recent events on college campuses nationwide make it clear student’s rights to free speech are in jeopardy. Campus leaders have allowed and promoted a type of Orwellian suppression of free expression that punishes deviation from specific lines of thought. Though state legislatures have made efforts to address these problems, far more needs to be done to treat the underlying disease rather than the symptoms.
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