Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the...
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‘Disinformation Czar’ Jankowicz Returns as Head of New Project Before Election
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
Nina Jankowicz is back . . . with a vengeance. The former head of the infamous “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security is now heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project. With a close election...
‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to prevent others...
NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political bias and activism. Berliner, who says that he is liberal politically, wrote about how NPR went from a left-leaning media outlet to a...
Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with its COVID-19 vaccines, including from healthcare workers. Due to a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew...
‘#arrestme’: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for...
Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The House Formally Invites President Biden to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry. The letter is the latest, and best, reduction of the glaring contradictions in the President’s past...
Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the New York Post on a reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied groups to try to block third-party candidates from the 2024 ballot. The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise money to “save democracy” by limiting...
Oh Canada: The Parliament Moves to Impose Potential Life Imprisonment for Speech Crimes
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies on free speech. There has been a steady criminalization of speech, including even jokes and religious speech, in Canada. Now, the...
MSNBC Legal Analyst: Free Speech Could Be America’s ‘Achilles Heel’
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the alarming shift in higher education in favor of censorship and speech regulations. These voices have been amplified on media platforms like MSNBC which has championed efforts to censor people and groups on social media and other forums. The...
The Eyes Have It: US Intelligence Allegedly Asked Foreign Countries to Surveil Trump Associates
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
There is a disturbing report published on Michael Shellenberger’s Public Substack detailing how the U.S. intelligence community called upon foreign governments to target associates of Donald Trump before the 2016 election. The request to the “Five Eyes”...
‘That is Not the Judgment of the Press’: The White House Calls the Media to Heel With Disinformation Campaign
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a reporter noted that there is widespread concern that he is mentally diminished. Biden’s cranky response was overshadowed by his confusion on other points during...
Why Burn Books When You Can Bury Them? The White House Pressured Amazon to Target Dissenting Books
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system that targeted dissenting books. It appears that, as with social media...
Wisconsin-Madison Under Fire Over Mandatory Anti-Racism Training
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the center of another controversy this week over its diversity training program. The mandatory diversity training at Wisconsin instructs students that “people of color” are incapable of being racist. That claim has long been...
Family of Ashli Babbitt Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Action
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
The long-awaited tort action from the family of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. Babbitt was shot and killed on Jan. 6th and her family is seeking $30 million in a wrongful death action. Equally important, the lawsuit could force additional...
Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expansion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues...
Destroying Democracy to Save It: Maine Shows the Danger of Zealots in our Legal System
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on the Maine decision and how it is illustrative of Justice Louis Brandeis’ warning of the danger of zealots. Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a...
Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
For years, we have discussed the alarming shift in the Democratic party on free speech with candidates running on pledges to censor opposing views and politicians supporting blacklisting and censorship on social media. Many citizens oppose such...
What if Jack Smith Held a Trial and No One Came? The Special Counsel Has an Ominous Week
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
In 1966, Charlotte E. Keyes wrote a famous article for McCall’s magazine titled “Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came.” Special Counsel Jack Smith may be contemplating the same fate. Putting the tongue-in-cheek title aside, the odds are that some people will come...
The Censorship ‘Switchboard’: A New Layer to the Biden Administration’s ‘Orwellian Ministry of Truth’
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Free speech is in a free fall as millions embrace censorship as a political cause, including some now running for federal office on a pledge to silence others. One of the most alarming aspects of this period has been the emergence of a type of triumvirate of...
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