“In general, an employer could fire an employee for just about anything, including criticizing the company on social media or anywhere else,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labor and employment law at the University of North Carolina.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/15/tech/can-you-lose-job-for-social-media-post/index.html
"This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook #FirstAmendment violation. The #government is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific #political initiatives. That a major #law firm would accept such an obviously #unconstitutional demand, rather than challenge it as #PerkinsCoie did, represents a complete abdication of their professional responsibilities"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/paul-weisss-shameful-surrender-makes-every-lawyer-there-complicit-in-trumpian-constitutional-desecration/
Of the many repressive moves by Trump's #FCC chief documented here by @freepress , perhaps the most alarming is going after #KCBS radio for covering lawbreaking by ICE. Reporting on government misconduct is at the heart of the #FirstAmendment; if you can't do that, you don't have a free press--period.
https://www.freepress.net/blog/how-fcc-chairman-carr-has-fueled-trumps-authoritarian-takeover
#TIL that #ColumbiaUniversity has apparently decided to turn their sheepskins into toilet paper.
#Ethics vs #Ethnic vs #FirstAmendment vs $400mil in #TributeTax
>>We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.<<
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/
Nice interview by Japanese media with VOA contributor Steve Herman.
"They tried to get me to admit that I made "speculations and analysis" in those comments. In any case, I have never been called into question in my 20+ year career at VOA."
"Shortly after, I was investigated again by VOA and USAGM for my social media activity. I was also investigated for my social media activity during the first Trump term, and it was alleged that I harbored anti-Trump bias."
Statement of #IndependentTrialMonitors
On Verdict in #GreenpeaceUSA Trial:
"It is our collective assessment that the jury verdict against Greenpeace in #NorthDakota reflects a deeply flawed trial with multiple due process violations that denied Greenpeace the ability to present anything close to a full defense. Attorneys on our team monitored every minute of the proceedings and found multiple violations of #DueProcess that denied Greenpeace its right to a fair trial. The problems included a jury that was patently biased in favor of #EnergyTransfer, with many members working in the #FossilFuel industry; a judge who lacked the requisite experience and legal knowledge to rule properly on the complex #FirstAmendment and other evidentiary issues at the center of the case; and incendiary and prejudicial statements by lawyers for Energy Transfer that tried to criminalize Greenpeace and by extension the entire #ClimateMovement by attacking constitutionally-protected advocacy.
"Our fear that this was an illegitimate #corporate-funded #SLAPP harassment case was confirmed by our observations.
"We will be issuing a full report documenting these violations and larger flaws in the case in the coming weeks.
"While the trial court verdict is in, the case is far from over. Greenpeace has a right to appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court and ultimately to the #USSupremeCourt. Our committee will continue its work monitoring this critically important case that raises troubling concerns for all advocates in the country."
— #MartyGarbus | #NataliSegovia | #JeanneMirer | #TerryCollingsworth | #StevenDonziger | #NadiaAhmad | #ScottWilsonBadenochJr. | #PaulPazYMiño | #AyishaSiddiqa | #WadeMcMullen | #KipHale | #SimonTaylor
Read individual statements:
https://www.trialmonitors.org/statement-of-independent-trial-monitors-on-verdict-in-greenpeace-trial
#NorthDakota #EnergyTransferPartners #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #SLAPPs #ViewerSupportedNews #GreenpeaceUSA #SLAPPsLawsuits #CriminalizingDissent #NorthDakota #StandingRockSiouxTribe #StandingRockReservation #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #KelcyWarren #ArrestKelcyWarren #ErikPrince #Blackwater #ACAB #FreeSpeech
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/03/20/79973959/slog-am-the-stranger-should-buy-i-5s-uncle-sam-billboard-adam-smith-shows-his-true-colors-boeing-sued-for-whistleblowers-death The Stranger should buy the Uncle Sam Billboard in Chehalis. It has a history. It can't be missed. It's up for sale #Billboards #Seattle #PNW #FirstAmendment
The Republican-led Texas Senate has passed a bill requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public-school classrooms across the state.
People shouldn't be deported for supporting a state the government doesn't currently like | @destiny in conversation with Fabian Liberty
Here's an irony: according to one account, #CBS' #60Minutes was conceived in 1968 as a Golden Handshake for one of its founding producers (#DonHewitt?); he was offered resources to do as he liked, to get him shifted off his then-job. Mgt didn't intend anything with it, really. Numerous #Emmys later...it's one of the few MSM journalistic outlets standing between #Trump, #Musk, and complete capitulation.
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-60-minutes-lawsuit-trump-pelley-58339cc1a1eb52739bb365e2e8c6d8bc?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#CBS #60Minutes #FirstAmendment
Let's see if #CBS has the courage it once had, when it helped bring down #JoeMcCarthy's witchhunt:
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/edward-r-murrow-on-mccarthy-1954/
One can only hope that #60Minutes, possibly the last brave #MSM standing, can take the heat and do its job.
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-60-minutes-lawsuit-trump-pelley-58339cc1a1eb52739bb365e2e8c6d8bc?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#FreeSpeech #1A #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #FreeMahmoudKhalil #HigherEd #deportation #Trump #MAGA
The one thing that conservatives don't understand is that you don't have a #2A if you don't have the #FirstAmendment
Leavitt is one of three administration officials who face a lawsuit from The Associated Press on First- and Fifth-amendment grounds. "The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit https://www.cbsnews.com/news/associated-press-sues-trump-officials-over-coverage-restrictions/. #APlawsuit #freedomofspeech #FreePress #firstamendment #trumpCoup
TFW you're racist AF but bright enough to realize this could happen to you too 
Columbia University is in favor of genocide?! If that is their view, it's time that the president of Columbia and his like-minded leadership team be replaced.
The First Amendment is whatever you want it to be | @destiny
The ACLU is outraged by the unlawful arrest & detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student activist. They strongly condemn this action as unprecedented, illegal, & un-American, emphasizing the importance of 1st Amendment rights. 
More info: [https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-strongly-condemns-unlawful-arrest-and-detention-of-columbia-student-activist] #ACLU #StudentActivist #FirstAmendment 
The Intercept: If Protesting Tesla Is Domestic Terrorism, Then What Demonstration Against Musk Isn’t
"..It’s obvious, both legally and from a common sense perspective, that First Amendment-protected peaceful protest is not domestic terrorism..."
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/13/trump-musk-tesla-protest-domestic-terrorism/
