free speech
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Expulsion for student’s anti-Semitic Snapchat at issue in 10th Circuit oral arguments
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Three federal judges appeared to believe on Wednesday that a Cherry Creek High School student who was expelled in 2019 over an offensive Snapchat message had plausibly claimed that the school officials’ discipline infringed on his free speech rights. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit heard oral arguments in…
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BIDLACK | ‘Our nation is strong enough to weather vile speech’
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George Washington didn’t use the internet. In the era the Constitution was written, information and opinions could travel no faster than a galloping horse or a ship at sea. And in that slower time, a remarkable group of intellectuals crafted what has become the longest lasting written constitution in world history. Pretty impressive, to be…
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Attacks on free speech aren’t just confined to college campuses
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In the 2017 session of the Colorado General Assembly, I cosponsored legislation to create additional protections for free speech on Colorado university campuses, and the bill passed with unanimous support from both Republicans and Democrats. Yet, what was most amazing was not the bipartisan support but the fact that the bill was necessary in the…
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Student free speech protection legislation signed into law
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed legislation that aims at protecting free speech on college campuses. Senate Bill 62 addresses “free speech zones” on campuses, where people are confined to an area of campus to express political and other views. The bipartisan bill’s sponsors, Sen. Tim Neville, R-Littleton, and Reps. Jeff Bridges, D-Greenwood Village, and…