Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Opinion | The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession

" #Facts, no less than law, constrain government power." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Demand for Student Race Data

Remember how Trump sought admissions data from public #colleges & #universities to ensure they weren't using racial preferences? A judge says Trump can't do that. For a while. #highereducation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post

"Reduce the #newsroom's budget by half and double the productivity of those who remained, all while protecting...investigative #journalism." What. Could. Go. Wrong. At the @washingtonpost.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Durango withdraws bookshop records request after lawsuit filed over First Amendment concerns Last month, Maria’s Bookshop filed a lawsuit against the city of Durango after the Durango Police Department tried to obtain book purchase records for a customer.

No one, from the Durango, Colorado Police Department, to the DA, through to the district court judge, remembered a 25-year-old #FirstAmendment case shielding the customer records of #bookstores. But Maria's #Bookshop did. From @ksutpublicradio.bsky.social www.ksut.org/news/2026-03...

Pete Hegseth Says ‘the Sooner David Ellison’ Buys CNN, ‘the Better’

Should we be worried about the approaching Ellison/Paramount Skydance/Bari Weiss takeover of @cnn.com or should we put our heads in the sand? Or just start calling it Capitulation Network #News? #journalism #broadcastjournalism #broadcastnews #legacymedia www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

#Scam #alert: Received an offer to appear at a Zoom discussion of one of my books from Manhattan Book Club, which people on Reddit say is fake. Plus person who "wrote" email has their first and last names reversed. Like an AI mistake. So beware. #writinglife #authors #writers

well what do you expect from a short-fingered vulgarian (a rhetorical question because i don't want to get either of us started....)

when will we run out of fingers?

What if we sent Trump (& company) a rejection letter, like the kind I get? "We're sorry, but you and your administration are not right for us at this time." Just sayin'

A Call for Reporting Tips Rankles Pentagon Officials

Can it be wrong to ask for information? The Pentagon apparently thinks so, & @washingtonpost.com might find out for certain. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

The First Amendment’s application to public university students: an explainer Free speech on university campuses is a perennially hot topic, perhaps most recently reflected in protests about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at places like Ball State University, Harvard, and Col...

So how does the #FirstAmendment apply to public #university #students? Although the court (in Tinker) carved out a framework for K-12 schools, it hasn't for #highereducation. Lower courts are split. @scotusblog.com looks into what is going on. www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-...

First grader's free speech case over 'Black Lives Mater' drawing upheld by 9th Circuit The First Amendment rights of a first grader in Southern California who drew a racially sensitive picture and gave it to a Black student were upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco.

The #FirstAmendment rights of a first grader who drew, then gave, a racially sensitive picture to a Black #student have been upheld by an appeals court. The drawing showed different races getting along underneath the words “Black Lives Mater [sic] any life.” www.abajournal.com/news/article...

Tlaib Introduces Bill to Protect Whistleblowers and Journalists DETROIT – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act to reform the Espionage Act to prevent its use and abuse against whis...

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduces Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom & Whistleblower Protection Act to prevent the Espionage Act from being used against whistleblowers & #journalists. “Alerting the public to government wrongdoing is not a crime,” Tlaib said. tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-...

Democratic States Sue Over Trump Demand That Colleges Provide Race Data

17 states sued Trump today over mandate requiring #colleges and #universities" supply admissions data to ensure they're not using racial preferences. "Once again, this administration is trying to..satisfy another witch hunt," @newyorkstateag.bsky.social said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Press freedom declines in Americas, with US seeing sharpest drop: Report A press freedom index has given the Americas its lowest ranking since it started recording results six years ago.

Press freedoms are backsliding across the Americas, with the US seeing the steepest decline.

Even though journalistic practice in the US remains constitutionally protected, last year saw the erosion of safeguards.

Trump, it said, had contributed to the “stigmatisation of critical journalism”.

#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress www.clickorlando.com/entertainmen...

Judge Denies Restraining Order for Conservative Media Figures Who Sought Press Passes Their lawyer argued that withholding access because the figures disagree with the lawmakers’ political views violates their constitutional rights of free speech and free press.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state lawmakers were within their rights when they declined to issue press passes to three conservative #media figures, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a case that echoes a national discussion over who qualifies as a #journalist. firstamendmentwatch.org/judge-denies...

If I ever have to relocate....
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The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

This article includes a link to a recording of what the earliest human #languages may have sounded like. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Trump Antisemitism Inquiry Demanding List of Jews at Penn Heads to Court

"We know very well the history of governments assembling lists of Jews does not end well." At least @upenn.edu knows, if the Trump administration doesn't. #FirstAmendment #freedomofassociation #freedomofreligion www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

In upstate New York in the 1980's, I covered a case of a young Black man killed by a (off-duty) police officer who placed him in a chokehold. I said the story needed coverage to prevent the use of chokeholds in the future--they're dangerous and unpredictable. Was I right? Was I? #journalism

Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.

#FirstAmendment #censorship #FreePress #FreeSpeech www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.

A noncitizen #adjunct #professor studying online harms to children has left the country for fear being deported: 1 account from many in new lawsuit saying immigration enforcement creates atmosphere of "pervasive fear" with "chilling effects" on research and advocacy. www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Regarding the SAVE America Act: my grandfather, Col. H.B. Amdur, U.S. Army, served at West Point, in Burma, Germany (post-war), and Japan, would have been #disenfranchised by this law. He didn't have a birth certificate and no one knew how old he was. And born in the U.S.A.

Dear Fancy #Literary #Magazine: Please do not send me advertisements to buy your newest issue when the last time you rejected me, you said I came so close to publication, and the ad includes all the people you did #publish. Just sayin'.

Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Actions To Dismantle Voice of America Are Illegal Voice of America is operating with a skeleton staff in only a handful of languages after Lake terminated contracts and laid off most of its employees.

Kari Lake, Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have legal authority to largely dismantle the Voice of America, a judge ruled on Saturday. Lake said she'd appeal. #journalism. firstamendmentwatch.org/federal-judg...

Judge Weighs New York Times Bid To Block Policy Limiting Journalists’ Access to Pentagon The Times sued the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in December, claiming the credentialing policy violates the journalists’ constitutional rights to free speech and due process.

Judge’s remarks in @nytimes.com #FirstAmendment case suggested he was skeptical of key arguments in the Trump administration's defense of policy removing #journalists from "Correspondents' Corridor." firstamendmentwatch.org/judge-weighs...

I used to cover this politician en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_U.... as a journalist in Maryland. At a certain point, she couldn't respond to questions and once gave me a story she shouldn't have. She eventually resigned due to Alzheimer's. Never realized what an honest person she had to be to do this.

Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville

"Some wondered whether her work documenting the Trump administration's immigration crackdown had made her a target." Detaining a #journalist seeking aslyum in the U.S. while married to a citizen sounds like #fascism to me. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

Lawsuit Accuses Writer of Using Classmate’s Story in Best-Selling Memoir

O #memoir. You are a tricky thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/n... (P.S. I wrote a memoir and no one accused me of lying but I'm not rich and pre-famous. bookshop.org/p/books/an-u... )