Minnesota Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar this week was hit by a “community note” flagging a common false statement made about January 6th and how multiple officers were killed that day. Democratic leaders routinely refer to multiple deaths of officers when the only...
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A New Year’s Resolution: Let’s Get the United States Out of the Censorship Business
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
On this New Year’s Eve, billions of people will gather with friends to ring in 2025 with the hope of a better year to come. For the first time in many years, free-speech advocates have a reason to celebrate. With 2024, we will say goodbye to one of the most...
Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter’s Business Associates Despite Past Denials
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign dealings. Despite the pronounced lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, the House and...
Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base...
Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on recent reports that the use of my name in search requests on ChatGPT results in an error and no response. I am apparently not alone in this haunt of ghosted individuals. The controversy raises some novel and chilling questions about...
‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times...
Congress’s Jan. 6 Investigation Looks Less and Less Credible
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on new evidence released by the House related to the January 6th riot. The J6 Committee fueled doubts about the official accounts by using only Democratically-appointed members and skewing the evidence. The new information further...
Expelliarmus!: HBO Delivers Blow Against the Anti-Rowling, Anti-Free Speech Movement
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
This week, HBO delivered the corporate version of the Expelliarmus or disarming curse for the long-standing cancel campaign targeting “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling. We have been discussing this campaign against Rowling, a feminist who has opposed transgender...
The Second Resistance Movement: Why the Campaign Against Trump This Time is Different
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the growing calls for an organized resistance to the Trump Administration by Democratic governors and prosecutors. They may find, however, that the resistance movement this time around will be facing significant legal and political...
Dumpster Fire: White House Press Office Faced Internal Criticism Over the Rewriting of President Biden’s Garbage Comments
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Since the “Let’s Go, Brandon” incident, the media has been repeatedly accused of reframing news or rewriting words to benefit the President or the Biden-Harris Administration. This week, the White House Press Office and various media outlets...
The Media Musk? Why the Cancel Campaign Targeting Jeff Bezos Could Backfire
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on Fox.com on the expanding boycott of the Washington Post by Democratic politicians, pundits, and members of the press. The reason? Because owner Jeff Bezos wants to stay politically neutral and leave the matter to the public. In an age...
‘No Kidding! No Joke!’ Liberals Call on Biden to Commit Unconstitutional Acts in his Final Days
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
With the end of the Biden Administration in sight, liberal pundits seem to be striving to prove that the only difference between a lawbreaker and a law-abiding citizen is the ability to get away with the crime. Popular figures on the left from Michael...
Adversarial Process or Oppo Research? Judge Agrees To Release More Trump Material Before the Election
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
It appears that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and Special Counsel Jack Smith are not done yet in releasing material in advance of the election. In a previous column, I criticized the release of Smith’s 180-page brief before the election...
‘We Lose Total Control’: Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
Hillary Clinton is continuing her global efforts to get countries, including the United States, to crackdown on opposing views. Clinton went on CNN to lament the continued resistance to censorship and to call upon Congress to limit free speech. In pushing her latest...
‘Perceived Criticism’: CEO Katherine Mayer Defends NPR’s Coverage and Culture
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
National Public Radio has had a rough go in the last few years with declining audiences, financial shortfalls, and the recent exposure of its political bias by longtime editor Uri Berliner. However, if you tuned into the comments of NPR CEO Katherine...
Robert Reich Calls for the Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He...
Democrats Lose Effort to Block Cornel West from Michigan Ballot
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
For months, we have been discussing the concerted effort of Democrats to bar challengers to President Joe Biden from primary ballots and block third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West from appearing on the November...
The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the move of the European Union to force Elon Musk to censor X users, including political speech leading up to the 2024 election. The column discusses this Rockwell painting, which we often use in discussing free speech controversies....
Want More Freedom of Speech? Try Less Government.
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on my call for a bill that would bar federal funding of any program and grant to censor, blacklist, or target individuals or sites based on their content. It is time to get the U.S. government out of the censorship business. The column...
The GARMs Race: The House Moves Forward With its Investigation of Blacklisting Company
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing media rating systems being used to target advertisers and revenue sources for certain cites and companies. NewsGuard and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) have been criticized as the most sophisticated...
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