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Jun 4, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | Nadine Strossen
This month represents a critical moment for freedom of speech—with a series of pending Supreme Court decisions likely to set standards for speech that, for better or worse, could last for generations. We turned to the expert on these issues—longtime ACLU president Nadine Strossen—to help disentangle the Court cases in play and explain why they matter.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
time.com | Nadine Strossen |Pamela Paresky
IdeasBy Nadine Strossen and Pamela PareskyNovember 21, 2023 7:05 AM ESTStrossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008). She's also a Senior Fellow with FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
sapirjournal.org | Nadine Strossen |Kenneth Stern
In the aftermath of Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre, a number of chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other student groups issued statements praising as “resistance” Hamas’s killing of babies, raping of women, and seizing of hostages — all of which violate the laws of war, not to mention basic human norms. We share the outrage. But we are deeply concerned by efforts to suppress rather than respond to this expression.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
thefp.com | Nadine Strossen
I think these protests are dangerous for the Jewish people. I see the speeches as fomenting hate; hate that apparently already exists. In this case it is dangerous for all of us. All over the world people fear of a world war. The thirty odd student groups that stated their beliefs that Israel was to blame for atrocities all had Islamist associations. The ideology that the world can be divided into oppressed and oppressors has been promoted in education across all western societies.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
thefp.com | Nadine Strossen |Pamela Paresky
We are living through the most horrific moment for the Jewish people in this century. It is also an especially crucial moment for the future of free speech. On October 7, Israelis were raped, tortured, kidnapped, and massacred by invading Hamas terrorists. It was an attack on Jews on a scale not seen since the Holocaust. Instead of attempting to hide evidence of their evil, as the Nazis did, the terrorists posted it on social media, reveling in their sadism.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
open.substack.com | Nadine Strossen |Pamela Paresky
We are living through the most horrific moment for the Jewish people in this century. It is also an especially crucial moment for the future of free speech. On October 7, Israelis were raped, tortured, kidnapped, and massacred by invading Hamas terrorists. It was an attack on Jews on a scale not seen since the Holocaust. Instead of attempting to hide evidence of their evil, as the Nazis did, the terrorists posted it on social media, reveling in their sadism.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
thehill.com | Nadine Strossen |Joe Cohn
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) just released yet another batch in a series of emails revealing a disturbing pattern of pressure by White House officials on Facebook and Instagram to suppress constitutionally protected speech. The First Amendment bars government officials from directly censoring the targeted speech, but it equally bars them from indirect censorship by deputizing social media companies to carry out their censorship agenda.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kristen Waggoner |Nadine Strossen
In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the US Supreme Court prohibited Colorado from forcing Lorie Smith to create a message that contradicted her beliefs. Some progressives have criticized the decision—not because of the legal principles it enforced, but because of Smith’s specific beliefs at issue. The court ruled the government may not compel Smith to endorse same-sex marriage.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Jacob Mchangama |Nadine Strossen
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThe prominent feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon in 2020 published a law review article making an argument that has become depressingly common—that the First Amendment has been transformed over the last century from “a shield of the powerless to a sword of the powerful,” including “authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen.”MacKinnon is by no means alone.
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Apr 23, 2023 | 
newsrnd.com | Jacob Mchangama |Nadine Strossen
Republican attacks on the US media are undermining legal protections around the world. There are serious consequences. A media debate is raging in the USA - most recently Barack Obama spoke up. The Republicans' wishes are more drastic: They could massively restrict freedom of expression and criticism of the government. Jacob Mchangama and Nadine Strossen explain why the right-wing fight against "Sullivan" is even globally significant.
