An Iowa state court on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper.
An Idaho conservation officer represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has been liberated from a years-long, speech-stifling defamation lawsuit from a now-top U.S. Department of Agriculture official.
Kash Patel’s $250M lawsuit raises First Amendment concerns as a potential SLAPP, threatening robust, open debate on government accountability and press freedom.
The government can’t censor individuals for criticizing government officials. But that’s exactly what happened last week in the Mississippi Delta — with the approval of a judge.