Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Sacramento Just Turned Off the Lights

September 1, 2026 9:25 amSeptember 1, 2026 9:25 am

I have spent thirty years chasing fraud in the financial services industry as a court-designated expert witness in federal and state courts. The first lesson you learn in that line of work is simple. Fraud does not survive in the...

Justice Thomas Feels Unwelcome at Institutions Like Stanford Law School

August 25, 2026 6:25 amAugust 25, 2026 10:52 am

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently stated the obvious at a Hoover Institution forum: places like Stanford Law School are effectively “off limits”to conservatives like him. He has never set foot there. “That’s the reality. That’s the world we’re in....

UCLA Law School Threatening to Punish Federalist Society Members if They Identify Student Protesters at Recent Event

June 1, 2026 6:00 amJune 1, 2026 6:01 am

UCLA Law School is under fire from U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and a free speech organization for threatening to punish Federalist Society members if they identify the students who disrupted their campus event last month with the Department of...

California Superior Court Judge Affirms Mob Rule at UCLA

January 17, 2026 3:10 amJanuary 17, 2026 5:05 pm

Mob rule at UCLA received a final seal of approval from California Superior Court Judge H. Jay Ford III last week. Ford finalized his December 1 preliminary ruling that UCLA administrators acted properly when they suspended a professor who sparked...

California Community Colleges System Quietly Disavowed Tyrannical Diversity Dictates After Lawsuit

April 9, 2025 2:48 pmApril 9, 2025 2:49 pm

The cult of diversity is crumbling all over California. Last month, the University of California announced with much fanfare that it would no longer require diversity statements for faculty hires. And in a little noticed move, the California Community Colleges...

USC Valedictorian Gets the Hook

April 18, 2024 1:44 pmApril 18, 2024 1:44 pm

For a short time, Chino Hills native and medical engineering student at USC Asna Tabassum was going to give the valedictory speech at this year’s commencement in May. But shortly after the announcement was made, University of Southern California administrators...

Free Speech is the Cure and Not the Cause of Antisemitism

December 15, 2023 9:41 amDecember 15, 2023 9:44 am

When the Presidents of MIT, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania were invited to denounce open race-hatred on their campuses, they wrapped themselves in the mantle of free speech. People have a right to say what they think as long as...