Two Coloradans who intentionally misgendered transgender people while they testified against a bill are suing the legislators who cut them off and asked them to be respectful. The initial complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado in early April claims the legislators named as defendants violated the plaintiffs’ right to free speech by stopping […] The post Lawsuit seeks to remove requirement for respectful language in legislative hearings appeared first on Colorado Newsline.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyLast Wednesday, dozens of students skipped class to gather outside a Payson, Utah, middle school for hours and chant, “We the people, not the animals!”—a protest launched over the dramatic accusation that their classmates were running wild as “furries” and attacking other students without consequence.Much of the hysteria, however, has been blown out of proportion.Footage from the scene showed them hoisting signs declaring, “Compelled spe
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a Texas law, which would have required book publishers and sellers to provide content ratings for books, is an unconstitutional breech of the First Amendment protection against compelled speech.
Recently a 10th-grade student in Washington failed a quiz… by telling the truth. It was a “world history” quiz (please feel free to honk if you understand how this has anything to do with world history), true/false, in which the student didn’t come up with the answers that the “teacher” wanted.