| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion
4 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-10-12 | Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-04 | BORTAC Border Patrol Tactical Units Deployed Against Portland BLM Protesters | | |
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-05-23 | Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom
3 src Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Twitter · Facebook · Instagram |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-09 | Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring
7 src | | confirmed |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court
4 src Microsoft · Google · Department of Justice · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-01 | FBI Surveils Occupy Wall Street as "Terrorist Threat" Before First Protest
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Election Commission · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Warren Burger · Byron White · Thurgood Marshall | | confirmed |
| 1969-06-09 | Supreme Court Upholds Fairness Doctrine in Red Lion v. FCC, Establishing Spectrum-Scarcity Trustee Theory
2 src Byron White · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
6 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned
3 src House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
3 src Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues
3 src House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · House Un-American Activities Committee · Department of Justice · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten
3 src Paramount Pictures |
| confirmed |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"
6 src House Un-American Activities Committee · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
3 src U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Louis Brandeis | | confirmed |
| 1918-05-16 | Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech
4 src U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture
5 src John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |