Freedom of Expression

Amicus, Freedom of Expression

Liberty University Trespassing Charges are a Threat to the Free Press

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Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that arrest warrants had been issued for two journalists for allegedly trespassing on the university’s campus in the course of their reporting on the university’s COVID-19 policies. Aside from functioning as an attack on the press, the trespassing allegations raise important questions about journalists’ right to engage in newsgathering activities on private university campuses.

Amicus, Environmental Justice, Freedom of Expression, Legislation

States are Protecting Animal-Based Agriculture at the Expense of the First Amendment

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The legislation that has surfaced in approximately twenty-five states either fines or criminally sanctions plant-based or cell-based producers that label their products with words like “meat” and “milk,” even if qualified by words like “vegan,” “almond,” or “cell-based.” Instead of violating the First Amendment to protect animal-based agriculture, authorities should instead direct resources towards a just transition for agriculture stakeholders.

Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Freedom of Expression

The Right to Eat Halal Often Stops at the Prison Gate

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Religious dietary constraints should not be viewed as an additional or optional financial inconvenience for state correctional departments, but must be understood as a necessary consequence of our country’s zealous insistence on mass incarceration. Departments of Correction should resist the urge to implement policies that they know will actively discourage adherents of minority faiths from free exercise. To do so is to fly in the face of our Founders’ recognition that religion is an intrinsic part of the human experience and essential to equality in a democratic society.

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