A regional school unit violated the First Amendment when it banned Shawn McBreairty from attending school functions and stepping foot…
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As a result of its information retention practices related to privacy and the First Amendment, the Maine Information and Analysis…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ office released draft rules on May 5 detailing how the agency would review vanity license…
How can we end the cycle of recrimination from which we are suffering and restore faith in our government? We…
In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of cheerleader Brandi Levy last week regarding the First Amendment…
A bill to limit license plates with profane or vulgar references passed under the hammer in the Maine House and…
On April 28, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case of Mahanoy Area School…
More than 70 elected Maine Democrats, including 13 of 21 Democratic senators, signed a letter last month calling for Chief…
The progressive establishment loves big government. Conversely, it really dislikes Americans born with individual rights and steeped in the American…
After Maine Democrats sent a letter to the state’s top public safety official Monday calling for an investigation into the…
As a long-time supporter of the First Amendment and the value of free and open inquiry, leftist cancel culture efforts…
Maine’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee is holding a public hearing Wednesday on LD 1988, “An Act To Prohibit the…
In 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that requiring public-sector workers to pay dues or fees to a union…
The Maine House of Representatives on Monday, June 3 voted 87-51 along party lines to pass a heavily-amended version of…
I have sponsored LD 665, “An Act to Enact the Campus Free Expression Act” this session to codify into state…
Political spats in Maine are threatening free press rights, and a bad law is at the source of it all.…
This article was originally published in the Portland Press Herald The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech is under…
James D. Herbert’s Feb. 11 column in the Portland Press Herald, “Are We Just Another Echo Chamber?” drew less attention than one…
Are you as concerned as I am about campus leftists shutting down debate on urgent public policy issues? Do you…
My friend and fellow conservative M.D. Harmon wrote a June 13 column in the Central Maine papers entitled “Something Rotten…
In response to the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, several leftist groups have been…