FEPP Archives - Issues - Political
Speech -2004
The
Supreme Court 2003-04 Term
Campaign finance, freedom of information, cybersex, "adult"
businesses, "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, government
funds for clergy training, and Vice President Cheney's claim for government
secrecy are the free expression issues in the 2003-04 term.
The
Attack on Science
(December 7, 2004) - From environmental hazards to sex
education, the federal government in the past several years has been twisting
science to political ends.
A
Question of Fair Play
(November 15, 2004) - Can current remedies for media bias
handle threats like Sinclair's aborted anti-Kerry campaign?
Brennan Center
Joins Legal Challenge to Employee Certification Mandate
(November 10, 2004) - The government requires that all
charities participating in the "Combined Federal Campaign" check their
employees against "terrorist related" lists.
Nobel Prizewinner
Shirin Ebadi Joins Lawsuit Against OFAC Regulations
(October 26, 2004) - FEPP is co-counsel in the original
challenge to rules that ban books and articles from Iran, Cuba, North
Korea, or Sudan.
Publishers and
Authors Sue Treasury Department
(September 27, 2004) - FEPP is co-counsel for PEN American
Center and Arcade Publishing in a suit challenging rules that ban books
and articles from Iran, Cuba, North Korea, or Sudan.
Structural
Free Expression Issues
(September 10, 2004) - How the copyright system, media
regulation, and government funding affect free speech.
Supreme Court
Strengthens Cheney's Hand
(June 24, 2004) - The justices guard government secrecy
against potentially "vexatious litigation."
Disney
and Corporate Censorship
(May 21, 2004) - What's the real problem with the Walt
Disney Company's refusal to distribute Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit
9/11?
Part of
the "USA PATRIOT Act" is Unconstitutional
(January 27, 2004) - Court rules that ban on "expert advice
or assistance" to groups branded as "terrorist" could easily include "unequivocally
pure speech and advocacy protected by the First Amendment."
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