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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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Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled in favor of government officials who used a drone to take…
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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may…
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US Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade & Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a case with far-reaching implications across the political spectrum for free speech and the right to…
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The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z
“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.”—Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross…
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Divide & Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear & Fake News
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all…
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Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
“Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought…
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Rutherford Institute Defends Women’s Basketball Coach’s First Amendment Right to Religious Expression
COLUMBIA, SC — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of the First Amendment rights of a women’s college…
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Oregon City Law Denounced Against Sleeping, Camping in Public as Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Homelessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Rutherford Institute is challenging attempts by Oregon city officials in Grants Pass to prohibit sleeping and…
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Commentary
Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way…
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