FEPP Archives - Issues - Political
Speech -2002-03
Supreme
Court Upholds the Campaign Finance Law
(December 10, 2003) - Recognizing that influence-peddling
and political corruption are undermining our democracy, the Supreme Court
has turned back a constitutional challenge to the major provisions of
the McCain-Feingold law.
Media
Democracy and the First Amendment
(November 14, 2003) - Why government regulation to break
up media conglomerates advances democracy and the First Amendment.
MATRIX
and the New Surveillance States
(October 16, 2003) - Senior Research Fellow Nancy
Kranich describes the perils of our newest data-mining technology.
Update
on the Perils of the "USA PATRIOT Act"
(August 27, 2003) - An update from Senior Research Fellow
Nancy Kranich on the chilling effects of the government's new surveillance
powers.
Terrorism
and the Constitution
(August 19, 2003) - David Cole and James Dempsey's
new book gives sobering background on the "USA Patriot Act"
and on America's habit of sacrificing civil liberties in the name of national
security.
The
Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act on Free Expression
(May 5, 2003) - FEPP Senior Research Fellow Nancy Kranich
surveys the chilling effects of the government's broad, new, secret surveillance
powers.
Post
9-11 Free Expression Resources and Web Sites
(2003) - Prepared by FEPP Senior Research Fellow Nancy Kranich.
Words
on Fire: Book Censorship in
America Today
(March 13, 2003) - At the opening of Boston's Words on
Fire festival commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first Nazi book
burnings, a survey of book censorship in America today.
The
Supreme Court 2002-03 Term
Debates over overseas sweatshops; telemarketing; sex toys;
Internet filters; cross-burning; and the public domain were some of the
free-expression issues in the Supreme Court's 2002-2003 term.
Culture
on Trial: The Story of 3 Landmark
Censorship Cases
(Winter 2002) - The trial that freed James Joyce's Ulysses;
the case that broke the Catholic Church stranglehold over American movies;
and the McCarthy Era case that ended teachers' loyalty oaths.
image: www.freeimages.co.uk
|
Site Last Updated
