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“I’m Holding Myself Accountable”: California Teacher Cancels Herself As A White Person Teaching Spanish

JonathanTurley

Bridges’ testimonial on Instagram was picked up by a couple conservative sites after she participated in a conference at Southern Connecticut State University’s “Virtual Women’s and Gender Studies Conference” in April. How about teaching race issues in law school or anthropology classes?

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The Return of Anthony Comstock: The Abortion Pill Case Raises a Law With A Dark and Troubling Past

JonathanTurley

After they defied him and continued to publish, he went to Connecticut to mail copies of the paper to an alias. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. In the case of Woodhull and Claflin, Comstock pushed to have them arrested over the publication of their newspaper.

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New York Considers Legislation to Curtail Free Speech in the Name of Democracy

JonathanTurley

Connecticut Sen. Free speech advocates are facing a generational shift that is now being reflected in our law schools, where free speech principles were once a touchstone of the rule of law. It is working.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig declared “As a prosecutor I’d gladly show a jury Trump’s own inflammatory statements and argue they cross the line to criminality.”

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. Said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig: “As a prosecutor I’d gladly show a jury Trump’s own inflammatory statements and argue they cross the line to criminality.”

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The New Censors: Polls Shows Almost Half of Americans Favor the Government Censoring “Misinformation”

JonathanTurley

Indeed, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal seemed to take the opposite meaning from Twitter admitting that it was wrong to censor the Biden story. Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech , which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right.