Author: William H. Freivogel

Illustration courtesy of Art Lien. The Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs, in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade.

By William H. Freivogel Judging from the comments this week from conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri and its far-right ally The Gateway Pundit are likely to lose their attempt to silence federal officials who press social media companies to take down false or dangerous posts.   Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and

By William H. Freivogel Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told an ethics class at Southern Illinois University Carbondale this month that he was the victim of an establishment “trying to bury me and bury the truth…The whole thing was a political prosecution.” And he wants retribution. He told the students he hoped to see, “Everyone

By William H. Freivogel On March 18, Missouri and its legal ally The Gateway Pundit will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by “coercing” social media companies to “censor” false conservative posts on vaccine and election denial. The argument comes less than a month after the

By William H. Freivogel The tricky thing about the First Amendment is that you have to protect the speech you hate as fiercely as the speech you love.   You have to protect leftist speech as much as rightist speech. Communists as much as fascists. Religious fundamentalists as much as atheists. Calls for war as much