Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Cases (2025-26) and Their Ideological Valence
FIRE has billed itself as a nonpartisan organization that fights speech restrictions that are seen as left-wing, right-wing, and no-wing. Some have, however, argued that FIRE mostly fights left-wing restrictions (and thus mostly protects right-wing speakers), and goes after only a few right-wing restrictions as supposed "tokens" to hide its true nature. To test that, I used Westlaw to find all…
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