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Xiangnong (George) Wang

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Judge Young's final "annotated order" in AAUP v. Rubio, just issued. A huge First Amendment victory. Very proud of my colleagues @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social @alexabdo.bsky.social @georgewang.bsky.social & grateful to our clients @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/documents/k4...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
SCOTUS has just rejected the government's application for a stay in Margolin v. NAIJ, our challenge to restrictions on the speech of immigration judges. It should reject the government's forthcoming cert petition, too. Full @knightcolumbia.org statement below. knightcolumbia.org/content/supr...
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Supreme Court Rejects Government’s Request to Stay Challenge to Policy Silencing Immigration Judges
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The only thing the Supreme Court's TikTok ruling has managed to accomplish is to grant Trump even more influence over the digital public sphere, as I argued early this year when he first took credit for "saving" TikTok: www.justsecurity.org/106601/tikto...
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President Trump’s Attempt to “Save” TikTok is a Power-Grab that Subverts Free Speech
"The Supreme Court was wrong to uphold the ban. But President Trump’s actions to 'save TikTok' -- through the fiat of an  executive order -- are poised to do further harm to American public discourse ...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The sanctions that Trump has imposed on the ICC and UN rapporteurs have been deterring American human rights advocates and scholars from exercising their First Amendment rights. This letter--obtained by @mesa1966.bsky.social & @knightcolumbia.org--should help. knightcolumbia.org/content/trum...
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Trump Administration Concedes That U.S. Researchers May Engage With Sanctioned U.N. Official
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 17/12/2025
“The Treasury Department’s concession is a significant reprieve to the many American scholars, journalists, and advocates that have been chilled from exercising their rights because they fear liability under U.S. sanctions laws,” @georgewang.bsky.social. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/trum...
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Trump Administration Concedes That U.S. Researchers May Engage With Sanctioned U.N. Official
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2025
⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views." knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...
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In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Judge Young: "The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence." An extraordinary, historic victory for democratic freedom. knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...
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In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A huge win in @knightcolumbia.org's challenge to the Trump admin's policy of targeting noncitizen students and faculty for deportation based on their pro-Palestinian speech. Thank you @aaup.org and @mesa1966.bsky.social for trusting in us to represent you. knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...
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In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Check out @knightcolumbia.org's post-trial brief in AAUP v. Rubio, which documents the Trump admin's efforts to arrest, detain, and deport students and scholars for their pro-Palestinian advocacy and explains why this ideological deportation policy violates the First Amendment. More below.
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Post-Trial Brief Supplies Comprehensive Account of Trump Administration’s Arrests, Detentions, and Threatened Deportation of Student Protesters
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 06/08/2025
@knightcolumbia.org has filed an almost-200-page brief describing evidence presented during trial in our AAUP v. Rubio case challenging the Trump admin’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen faculty & students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/content/post...
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Post-Trial Brief Supplies Comprehensive Account of Trump Administration’s Arrests, Detentions, and Threatened Deportation of Student Protesters
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/07/2025
In Boston, the most consequential and far-reaching trial of the second Trump Presidency has been set in motion: A.A.U.P. v. Rubio, which challenges the Administration’s systematic campaign to arrest, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.
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A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students
In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/07/2025
This has been the first major trial of Trump’s second term. Over eight days of witness testimony, it uncovered a wealth of new detail about the ideological-deportation policy and its effects on college and university campuses across the country. #AAUPvRubio
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Landmark Trial Ends, With Court’s Ruling to Come; Record Uncovers New Details on Ideological-Deportation Policy and Its Effects on Academic Life
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This morning we wrapped up our trial in AAUP v. Rubio--our challenge to the Trump admin's ideological deportation policy--with powerful closing statements by my @knightcolumbia.org colleague @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and Alex Conlon of Sher Tremonte.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 21/07/2025
📍TODAY at 10:00am ET – We're set to deliver closing arguments in our AAUP v. Rubio case challenging Trump admin’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen faculty and students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. Register to join the livestream: forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-sign...
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Request for Courtroom Seating/Audio Access
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Tomorrow: Closing arguments in AAUP v. Rubio, @aaup.org, @mesa1966.bsky.social, and @knightcolumbia.org's challenge to the Trump admin's policy of deporting students for their pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy. Catch up on the trial here: knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
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AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A federal judge in Boston will hear closing arguments tomorrow in AAUP v Rubio, our challenge to the arrests and threatened deportations of foreign students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. I spoke with @democracynow.org about the case a couple of weeks ago. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/29/ja...
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Fear, Repression & Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling as Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas
The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against international students at U.S. colleges and universities, announcing that it will begin “aggressively” revoking the visas of Chinese student...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 18/07/2025
Official Confirms State Department Considered Statements Critical of Israel and U.S. in Revoking Foreign Students’ Visas. Below are highlights from Day 9 of @aaup.org v. Rubio trial. Closing arguments are set for Monday 7/21, 10am ET. Register for livestream below. knightcolumbia.org/content/offi...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 17/07/2025
“For a long time — and especially the last year and a half — there have been plenty of reasons why people who have engaged in pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy may have felt chilled, particularly on college campuses,” says @georgewang.bsky.social in @theverge.com. www.theverge.com/policy/70772...
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Right-wing orgs put pro-Palestinian students on an ICE ‘hit list’
‘There’s been absolutely no recourse.‘
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/07/2025
"Ideological Deportation": AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students
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“Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students
The first trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism is underway in Boston....
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Today, the 4th Circuit revived @knightcolumbia.org's challenge to the DOJ's sweeping prior restraint on the speech of immigration judges. The ruling has important implications for the scores of lawsuits opposing the Trump admin's unprecedented assault on the rights of federal workers.
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Fourth Circuit Revives Challenge to Policy Silencing Immigration Judges
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 29/04/2025
A federal judge just ruled that our case seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests can go forward. Read our statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A district court in Boston will hear argument on Wednesday in AAUP v. Rubio, a challenge to the arrests, detentions, and threatened deportations of students for their pro-Palestine advocacy. A hugely important First Amendment case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My @knightcolumbia.org colleague Ramya Krishnan will be in court in Boston this Wednesday arguing on behalf of @aaup.bsky.social & @mesa1966.bsky.social in their challenge to the Trump admin's ideological-deportation policy. This is the case: knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v...
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American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My @knightcolumbia.org colleague @carriedecell.bsky.social will be arguing this case before the Ninth Circuit tomorrow on behalf of journalists from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social whose phones were hacked with NSO Group's spyware. 12:00 ET, link to audio below. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court
When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
AP wins. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Talked to @audiecornish.bsky.social about the ICE roundup of student protesters, the implications for free speech, and how universities should be responding. www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Powerful op-ed from Profs. Maya Jasanoff and @kirstenweld.bsky.social. They are members of AAUP-Harvard, one of the groups challenging the Trump admin's policy of targeting noncitizen students and faculty for deportation based on their pro-Palestinian advocacy. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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We’re Harvard Professors Suing the Trump Administration. Here’s Why. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Universities are currently on the front lines of a battle for basic civil liberties. We must fight for the values — and the people — that define us. This lawsuit is a start.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 02/04/2025
What happens when AI-powered #surveillance coincides with an authoritarian assault on public education? The transparency needed to answer that question doesn't exist, says staff attorney Jennifer Jones in today’s @teenvogue.com. So we've sued a TX school district. www.teenvogue.com/story/school...
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School-Issued Laptops Are Monitoring Students' Every Word
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I am very proud to be a declarant in AAUP v Rubio. As @aaup.bsky.social general counsel I hear the harrowing stories of our noncitizen & citizen members & the ways their 1st A rights are trampled upon by the administration’s ideological deportation policies. knightcolumbia.org/documents/n3...
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Declaration of Veena Dubal
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Just filed: Our motion for a preliminary injunction in our lawsuit on behalf of @aaup.bsky.social and @mesa1966.bsky.social challenging the Trump admin's policy of targeting noncitizen faculty and students for deportation based on their pro-Palestinian speech. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute Asks Court to Block Trump Policy of Deporting Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/03/2025
BREAKING: The AAUP & chapters @ Harvard, Rutgers, & NYU; & the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from carrying out arrests, detentions, & deportations of students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests & protected 1st Amendment activities.
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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The arrests and deportations of student protesters has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses across the country. Read this complaint--just filed by @aaup.bsky.social, @mesa1966.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org--and you'll get a sense of it.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Americans who don’t blink when the government arrests, detains, and threatens to deport student protesters won’t blink when the government does this to other dissenters, which it will.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 25/03/2025
This morning, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...
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AAUP, Middle East Studies Association, Knight Institute Sue Over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research! So proud of my union! protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
There's a lot of work to do. We're hiring another Legal Fellow to start ASAP. Please send the best people our way. @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 10/03/2025
Knight Institute Says Threats to Deport Student Protesters Pose “Existential Threat” to Universities Statement from @jameeljaffer.bsky.social below and at link. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Legislators should be exposed to the views of their constituents. No one wins if town halls are transformed into echo chambers. Also, the First Amendment prohibits it. Here’s the letter we just sent to Speaker Mike Johnson. knightcolumbia.org/documents/t1...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/03/2025
The government has increasingly invoked an overly broad law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act to stigmatize, stifle, and sanction viewpoints it doesn’t like. We're asking the court to ensure FARA isn't used to violate the First Amendment.
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Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The White House’s ban on the AP violates the public forum doctrine and is a threat to the public’s right to hear unbiased reporting on the president
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 05/03/2025
NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @aclu.org urge court to construe Foreign Agent Registration Act narrowly, say overbroad law has chilling effects on journalists, media organizations, and nonprofits. Read staff attorney @georgewang.bsky.social's statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Xiangnong (George) Wang @georgewang.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out @knightcolumbia.org & @aclu.org's just-filed amicus brief in support of Dr. Sue Mi Terry in a case raising important questions about the scope of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute and ACLU Urge Court to Construe Foreign Agent Registration Act Narrowly
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org brief in support of the Associated Press: "The right to access public institutions without being required to kowtow to authority is a hallmark of democracy" knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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Knight Institute Urges Court to Restore AP to White House Press Pool
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Carrie DeCell @carriedecell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
USCIS is proposing to extend social media disclosure requirements adopted by the State Dep’t in 2019 to millions more applicants for immigration benefits each year: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-03492.pdf
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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
From Gods to Google is now out in the Yale Law Journal Following First Amendment challenges to tech regulations? We tell a different story of the caselaw: not (just) Lochnerean but the output of this Court’s religious speakers cases www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/from...
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From Gods to Google
The First Amendment is a well-known barrier to sensible technology regulation. While scholars blame the Court’s libertarian turn, we offer another explanation: the Court’s solicitude for religious spe...
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