Academia - Citizens for Free Speech

Newsom Threatens to Cut Funds from Universities that Sign Trump ‘Compact’ for ‘Civil Discourse,’ Fighting Antisemitism

October 4, 2025 Joel Pollak via Breitbart News 0

Newsom claims that the compact “ties access to federal funding to radical conservative ideological restrictions.” In fact, the document, mailed to several universities and obtained by the Washington Examiner, demands complete academic freedom while also protecting conservatives from being silenced.

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‘IDENTICAL FACTS’: Loudoun County Punishes Christian Boys While Exonerating Muslim, Lawyer Says

August 23, 2025 Tyler O 'Neill via The Daily Signal 1

While the school system brought “identical facts” against all three boys, it eventually dropped the case against the Muslim boy. While the district “didn’t say Muslim,” Hetzler said “that was the only difference we could find.” While the lawyer said exonerating the Muslim boy “was the right thing,” he faulted Loudon County Public Schools for keeping the cases against the two Christian boys.

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Va. School Board Walks Back Trans Pronoun Policy

July 26, 2025 S.A. McCarthy via The Washington Stand 0

Despite the victory in Loudoun County, conservatives and Christians are still being persecuted for adhering to biological and biblical reality. Just last week, Louisiana pastor Luke Ash, lead pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, was fired from his weekday job at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library when he refused to address a biologically female coworker using male pronouns.

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A battle over religion and schools in Oklahoma could decide the future of the First Amendment

April 4, 2025 Lawrence Hurley via NBC News 4

Under Walters’ watch, the state approved the first ever religious virtual public charter school, a provocative move that is now before the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the move next month. He has also proposed placing Bibles in schools, a move that was recently blocked by the state Supreme Court, and is seeking to add more Christian-related themes to the curriculum, including information about the Ten Commandments.

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ASU Bans Jewish Professor For Confronting Hamas Protestor

May 13, 2024 Staff writer at AZ Free News 0

This Jewish professor was baited (off campus) by a pro-Hamas demonstrator who then yelled “Hate crime, hate crime” until Tempe police arrived. He was not arrested, but he was physically banned from the ASU campus by its President Michael Crow.

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The Censorship ‘Switchboard’: Biden Admin’s ‘Orwellian Ministry of Truth’

November 28, 2023 Jonathan Turley 0

Free speech is in a free fall as millions embrace censorship as a political cause, including some now running for federal office on a pledge to silence others. One of the most alarming aspects of this period has been the emergence of a type of triumvirate of censorship, an alliance of government, academic, and media corporations.

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Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education

November 28, 2023 Jonathan Turley 0

In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges the centrality (or even the necessity) of free speech protections in higher education. The latest such argument appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Two Arizona State University professors — Richard […]

Jonathan Turley: The Indispensable Right

November 28, 2023 Jonathan Turley 0

As many of you know, I have written about free speech and constitutional rights for decades in law reviews and journals. In that sense, this book has been thirty years in the making in offering a single, comprehensive treatment of a right that Justice Brandeis called “indispensable.

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