Larry Flynt waged many First Amendment wars -- and not just in defense of porn
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It was October 2001, not exactly the heyday of publisher Larry Flynt's many controversies, and professor Robert Richards couldn't understand what the fuss was about.
Through the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at Penn State, which Richards founded, the professor wanted to bring Flynt to speak to students and faculty. He found the backlash jarring. A conservative radio host in Philadelphia had shared the university president's contacts, encouraging listeners to bombard Penn State's leadership. A religious group had sent its flock the email address for the college of communication's dean. A state legislator had joined in stoking the outrage, even threatening the university's funding over the Flynt visit and other campus events he found unseemly.
The Supreme Court on Thursday seemed open to lifting a series of nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump from enforcing his birthright citizenship policy even as several of the justices wrestled with the practical implications of allowing the government to deny citizenship to people born in the US.
DHS’s oversight arm opened an investigation into the controversial arrest of Mahmoud Khalil only days before officials working for that office were placed on administrative leave.
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Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique on her cell phone in the first video released of a group of Venezuelans sent by the United States to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison Cecot.