White House statements, Executive orders, Jan. 20-April 25, 2025
White House, Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship, Jan. 20, 2025
White House, Remarks by President Trump on the Economy in Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 25, 2025
White House, Gulf of America Day, Feb. 9, 2025
White House, Remarks by President Trump at Republican governors association meeting, Feb. 20, 2025
White House, Press briefing, Feb. 20, 2025
White House, Remarks by President Trump to joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025
White House, Addressing risks from WilmerHale, March 27, 2025
White House, Addressing Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship, April 9, 2025
White House, Addressing risks from Susman Godfrey, April 9, 2025
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Documents in Rumeysa Ozturk case, April 11, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, Memorandum order, Feb. 8, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Adam B. Abelson, Memorandum opinion, Feb. 21, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, Memorandum order, March 28, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Loren L. AliKhan, Order, April 15, 2025
Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy, The case against deporting immigrants for ‘pro-terrorist’ speech, March 10, 2025
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression,Trump’s attack on law firms threatens the foundations of our justice system, March 18, 2025
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, The First Amendment, Accessed April 15, 2025
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Webinar, April 15, 2025
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, X post, April 14, 2025
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Harvard gets worst score ever in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings, Sept. 6, 2023
Foundation for Individual Rights and Express, Cases about Stop Woke Act, Texas A&M University Queer Empowerment Council, Colorado State Senate Gallery, Clovis Community College, 2022-2025
ACLU, Doctors Challenge Removal of Their Patient Safety Research from Federal Website, March 12, 2025
ACLU, Court Denies Preliminary Relief to Arts Organizations, April 3, 2025
Dan Cotter, Law Firm Independence Under Attack With Executive Orders, April 10, 2025
Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, X post, April 15, 2025
Trump administration, Letter to Harvard University, April 11, 2025
Lawyers representing Harvard University, Letter to U.S. Department of Education, April 14, 2025
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, Memorandum order in Associated Press vs Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff, Feb. 8, 2025
Congress.gov, First Amendment
Just Security, Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions, Accessed April 15, 2025
Perkins Coie, Statement by managing partner, March 2025
New York Times, How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It, March 20, 2025
New York Times, Trump and Paramount Agree on Mediator in ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, April 7, 2025
Washington Post, Trump’s opponents decry a sweeping crackdown on free speech, March 3, 2025
Washington Post, No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found, April 13, 2025
John R. Vile, Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, First Amendment rights of colleges and universities, April 15, 2025
Allison Hayward and John R. Vile, Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, First Amendment rights of non-citizens, aliens, April 14, 2025
John R. Vile, Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, Trump’s executive orders against law firms, April 10, 2025
John R. Vile, Control of Smithsonian Institution Exhibits, April 7, 2025
Ann Coulter, X post, March 10, 2025
ABC, Military academies criticized for removing DEI-related books from libraries, April 12, 2025
New York Times, A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia, March 20, 2025
New York Times, Immigrants and Freedom of Speech, March 24, 2025
Associated Press, Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension, Jan. 29, 2025
Associated Press, AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech, Feb. 21, 2025
Associated Press, Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech but critics say his actions threaten it, March 12, 2025
Associated Press, A look at the universities with federal funding targeted by the Trump administration, April 15, 2025
Associated Press, Army and Air Force libraries are ordered to review books for DEI material, April 16, 2025
Associated Press, Immigration judge denies bond for Tufts University student from Turkey, her lawyers say, April 17, 2025
New York Times, These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration, March 7, 2025
SCOTUSblog, Justices side with Biden over government’s influence on social media content moderation, June 26, 2024
SCOTUSblog, Justices throw out Trump Twitter case, April 5, 2021
New York Times, Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm’s Connection to Robert Mueller, March 27, 2025
The Hill, Big law spends top dollar as Trump takes aim at firms, April 15, 2025
The Tufts Daily, Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions, March 26, 2024
ABC7, Tufts PhD student taken into custody and visa ‘terminated,’ school says, March 27, 2025
CBS, X reaches $10 million settlement with Trump over prior suspension of his Twitter account, Feb. 12, 2025
Chalkbeat, Chilling effect: 1 in 4 teachers told to limit class talk on hot-button issues, Aug. 10, 2022
Chalkbeat, Parents Defending Education challenges Chicago district’s Black Student Success Plan as discriminatory, Feb. 21, 2025
Chalkbeat, Trump’s anti-DEI funding threat hit like an earthquake. This is what’s happened since. April 14, 2025
Ten Jewish groups, Statement about Trump, April 15, 2025
PolitiFact, Meta ending third-party fact-checking partnership with US partners, including PolitiFact, Jan. 7, 2025
PolitiFact, In RFK Jr.’s campaign against censorship, he made a False attack on Biden, April 5, 2024
PolitiFact, Lauren Boebert wrong on Founding Fathers’ intent, experts say, June 30, 2022
PolitiFact, Trump’s Pants on Fire claim that Twitter is ‘completely stifling free speech’ by fact-checking him, May 27, 2020
PolitiFact, Do undocumented immigrants have constitutional rights? March 29, 2017
Telephone interview, Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, April 15, 2025
Email interview, John R. Vile, dean and professor of political science, Middle Tennessee State University, April 15, 2025
Email interview, Thomas Healy, law professor, Seton Hall Law School, April 15, 2025
Email interview, Thomas Berry, Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute, April 16, 2025
Email interview, Nico Perrino, executive vice president at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, April 16, 2025
Telephone interview, Nadine Strossen, professor at New York Law School, April 17, 2025
Email interview, Constance Lindsay, University of North Carolina assistant professor of education, April 18, 2025
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly, Statement, April 25, 2025
Court Listener, “Declaration of William P. Joyce,” March 12, 2025
Tufts Daily, “Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions
ACLU, “https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/04/ozturk-ex-12.pdf
New York Times, What Is the White House Press Pool, and Why Is Trump Seizing Control of It?, Feb. 26, 2025
CNN, Trump urges the FCC to punish ‘60 Minutes’ over reports on Greenland and Ukraine, April 14, 2025
New York Times, FCC Chair Orders Investigation Into Comcast’s DEI Practices, Feb. 12, 2025
Reuters, FCC case against CBS for ‘news distortion’ may go far beyond precedent, scholars say, Feb. 13, 2025
Associated Press, Trump’s FCC commissioner opens investigation into Walt Disney Co. and ABC for diversity policies, March 28, 2025
Federal Register, Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP, March 6, 2025
Federal Register, Addressing Risks From Paul Weiss, March 14, 2025
Federal Register, Addressing Risks From Jenner & Block, March 25, 2025
White House, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling, Jan. 29, 2025
Federal Register, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, Jan. 20, 2025
Federal Register, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, Jan. 21, 2025
Federal Register, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, Jan. 20, 2025
BBC, Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding, April 15, 2025
NPR, As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them, March 23, 2025
Washington Post, How Trump’s orders are changing federal agencies’ websites, Jan. 31, 2025
Snopes, 15 rumors we’ve investigated about Trump administration’s changes to government websites, March 25, 2025
New York Times, The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It, April 5, 2025
White House, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, March 27, 2025
NPR, U.S. Army libraries target books with a focus on DEI or ‘gender ideology’ for removal, April 15, 2025
Reason, Campus Anti-Israel Protests and the Ethics of Civil Disobedience, May 6, 2024
Reason, The Case Against Deporting Immigrants for “Pro-Terrorist” Speech [Updated], March 10, 2025
Meta, Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses, Jan. 25, 2023
NBC News, Mark Zuckerberg says Biden officials would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ when seeking removal of Facebook content, Jan. 10, 2025
Associated Press, Supreme Court sides with Biden administration in social media dispute with conservative states, June 26, 2024
PolitiFact, Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact, Jan. 9, 2025
White House, Remarks by Vice President Vance at the Munich Security Conference, Feb. 14, 2025
White House, Gulf of America Day, 2025, Feb. 9, 2025
Forbes, Calling CNN, MSNBC ‘Dishonest,’ Trump Says Networks Will Be ‘Turned Off’, March 21, 2025
Donald Trump, Truth Social Post, April 13, 2025
CNN, Trump urges the FCC to punish ‘60 Minutes’ over reports on Greenland and Ukraine, April 14, 2025
Brendan Carr, X post, April 16, 2025
Brendan Carr, X post, March 28, 2025
Brendan Carr, X post, March 28, 2025
Cato Institute, FCC Investigates Radio Station Over Coverage of Immigration Raid, Feb. 11, 2025
CNN, More than 1,000 international students and graduates in the US have had their visas revoked or statuses terminated, April 17, 2025
State Department, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press, March 28, 2025
Harvard University, Upholding Our Values, Defending Our University, April 21, 2025
White House, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling, Jan. 29, 2025
ACLU, Court Rules Rümeysa Öztürk’s Lawsuit Should Move Forward in Vermont and Orders ICE to Transfer Her Back to New England, April 18, 2025
ACLU, Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans, April 15, 2025
ACLU Legal Organizations Across Ideologies File Amicus Briefs in Support of Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Law Firms, April 11, 2025
The Hill, Judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump order targeting Perkins Coie, March 12, 2025
CNN, Judge blocks Trump executive order targeting law firm tied to Mueller probe, March 28, 2025
Politico, Judges partially block two executive orders targeting major law firms, March 28, 2025
White House, Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Forceful and Unprecedented Steps to Combat Anti-Semitism, Jan. 30, 2025
Washington Post, No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or Hamas, State Dept. office found, April 13, 2025
U.S. Code, 8 USC 1201: Issuance of visas, accessed April 25, 2025
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, X post, April 16, 2025
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, X post, April 15, 2025
American Association of Colleges and Universities, “A Call for Constructive Engagement, April 22, 2025
Harvard University, Harvard Funding Freeze Order Complaint or Harvard Constitutional and Title VI Complaint,
New York Review of Books, “A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, March 20, 2025
NPR, Trump’s social media site hits the app store a year after he was banned from Twitter, Feb. 22, 2022
U.S. Department of Education, EndDEI.Gov, accessed April 22, 2025
U.S. Department of Education, Reminder of Legal Obligations Undertaken in Exchange for Receiving Federal Financial Assistance and Request for Certification, April 3, 2025
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, ED, and GSA Respond to Columbia University’s Actions to Comply with Joint Task Force Pre-Conditions, March 24, 2025
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million, March 7, 2025
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Additional Measures to End Anti-Semitic Harassment on College Campuses, March 3, 2025
New York Times, Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped, March 21, 2025
New York Times, Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding, April 21, 2025
Axios, After Harvard rejects Trump admin demands, $2.2 billion in funding cut, April 14, 2025
U.S. Department of Education, Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Statement Regarding Harvard University, April 14, 2025
The Associated Press, AP statement on Oval Office access, Feb. 11, 2025
The White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Feb. 12, 2025
Federal Communications Commission, Comment Cycle for News Distortion Complaint Involving CBS, Feb. 5, 2025
CNN, Trump sues CBS over ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris. Legal experts call it ‘frivolous and dangerous’ Nov. 12024
Voice Of America, “FCC launches media investigations, reinstates complaints,” Feb. 5, 2025
Reuters, “FCC reinstates complaints over ABC presidential debate, Harris TV appearances,” Jan. 23, 2025
NPR, “Trump administration cancels $400 million in federal dollars for Columbia University,” March 7, 2025
U.S. Department of Defense, “Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Memorandum,” Feb. 26, 2025
Associated Press, Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, March 9, 2025
NYCLU, Mahmoud Khalil Notice to Appear, March 9, 2025
NYCLU, Mahmoud Khalil v. Donald J. Trump, accessed April 28, 2025
DocumentCloud, DHS documents submitted in immigration court case of Mahmoud Khalil,
Associated Press, AP statement on Oval Office access, Feb. 11, 2025
Charlie Kirk, X post, April 16, 2025
NPR, Twitter Permanently Suspends Trump, Citing ‘Risk Of Further Incitement Of Violence’, Jan. 8, 2021
X post, Feb. 14, 2025
YouTube, President Trump Delivers Remarks at the Department of Justice, March 14, 2025
New York Times, Firm Targeted by Trump Over Clinton Campaign Work Hires Top Litigators, March 10, 2025