When the White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press pass after trying to stop Acosta from asking tough but fair questions, it was clear that key First Amendment principles were at stake. Journalists must be able to cover the White House without fear of retribution. I along with my colleagues at Gibson Dunn and the CNN […]
The First Amendment grants us freedom of speech and expression, but that doesn’t prevent Americans from facing free speech violations and censorship in the workplace, at school or on college campuses. Freedom of the press is also granted to us by the First Amendment, but threats to a free press still exist. While we don’t […]
X and Y, left and right, male and female – life is littered with binaries. Some are inherent to the human experience, but what happens when a third variable is introduced? What happens when your options are X and Y, but you know you’re a Z? As was my experience going to a Catholic high […]
Because voters are the decision makers of any democratic republic such as our own, it is imperative that they not only be informed but wholly informed– a democracy hiding information from its people is no democracy at all. This is why journalism is the fourth pillar of democracy– without the free flow of information, democracy […]
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Taking a Stand on Climate Change and Against Silencing
/in Around the Agencies, First Amendment /by George Luber, PhDAccording to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, climate change poses the single greatest threat to public health in the 21st century. From the impacts of extreme weather events, to the expanding distribution of infectious diseases, climate change will amplify existing threats to health, as well as create new ones. […]