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Supreme Court Sidesteps Effort to Rein In Government Campaign to Coerce Social Media Companies to Censor First Amendment Activity
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has sidestepped a challenge to the federal government’s efforts to…
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Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too…
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The Supreme Court Makes the President a Dictator for Life
“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the…
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Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear from Trump or Biden
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George…
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Victory: Oklahoma Supreme Court Vacates Protective Order Against Street Preacher Who Criticized ‘Gay’ Marriage, Denounced Drag Show
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — In a 5-4 ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has vacated a five-year protective order against street…
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Commentary
Mission Creep: How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances,…
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Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution
“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father…
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Unanimous Supreme Court Calls Foul on Government Efforts to Blacklist & Informally Censor Disfavored Political Groups Such as the NRA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a warning to government officials that the First…
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Commentary
What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way
“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from…
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Victory: Rutherford Institute Protects Valedictorian’s First Amendment Right to Talk About God in Graduation Speech Without Being Censored
TAMPA, Fla. — After being ordered by school officials to remove religious references from his valedictorian speech, a Florida high…
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The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech
Social media platforms censor in two primary ways. First, the platforms “remove[] posts that violate [their] terms of service or…
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U.S. News
Relying on Red Tape & Technicalities, Police Use Asset Forfeiture to Keep Thousands of Dollars in Cash From Innocent Owners
WASHINGTON, DC — The Rutherford Institute is pushing back against efforts by police to use red tape and technicalities as…
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Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and…
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From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech
“Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community…
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SCOTUS Fails to Protect Citizens From Asset Forfeiture Delay Tactics That Let Police Keep Seized Cars & Cash
WASHINGTON, DC — In a ruling on civil forfeiture, which has been likened to a modern-day form of highway robbery,…
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Commentary
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws & Too Little Freedom
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the…
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