JUDGE CARMAC CARNEY DEFENDS THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE RULE OF LAW Written by: FEF Staff There is an old adage that a judge is a combination of a lawyer and a politician. Hard experience by attorneys representing the Dissident Right in First Amendment cases has shown that this adage often – too often – carries much truth. But there…
By Glen Allen, Esq., FEF President Since its inception, FEF has made steady progress toward fulfilling its mission of providing moral, financial, and legal support to those who have been harmed from the exercise of their rights of free expression. FEF now has an exciting opportunity to accelerate that progress: a generous donor has agreed to match donations to FEF…
From Glen Allen, Esq., FEF President We all, I hope, have heroes. Near the pinnacle in my hierarchy of heroes is a diminutive, soft-spoken man with gigantic intellect, scholarship, vision, and integrity: James Madison. Academics and a significant part of the American public recognize that Madison was the primary draftsman of the Constitution, which was written in 1787 and ratified…
Written By: Glen Allen, Esq. For several decades I’ve had Edward Gibbon’s classic The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my books-to-be-read list. A month ago I finally took Gibbon’s masterpiece from my bookshelf and began reading it. Almost immediately a host of comparisons of the declining Roman Empire to the present state of America arose in my…
Article by FEF Staff Last month, FEF Chief Legal Officer Glen Allen, acting as appellate counsel for Dissident Right activist Warren Balogh, filed the opening appellate brief in Balogh’s lawsuit against Virginia authorities relating to their handling of the historic 2017 Unite the Right (“UTR”) rally in Charlottesville. In Balogh’s initial pro se complaint he alleged, among other things, that…
This week, Free Expression Foundation co-founder and Chief Legal Officer, Glen Allen, together with local counsel, filed a Federal lawsuit in Washington state against infamous “antifascist” activist, David Capito. The suit has been filed on behalf of several individuals Capito allegedly maliciously doxxed in late 2021. The six-count complaint alleges that Mr. Capito, who changed his name to the exotic…
Soros-Funded Prosecutor Pushes Dubious Tiki Torch Prosecutions for Political Reasons Written by: Joseph Jordan and Glen Allen As the politicization of the American judicial system accelerates, emboldened prosecutors are navigating into uncharted waters to please wealthy donors, raise their national profile, and distract from the crime epidemic they have helped unleash. Following the Unite the Right rally in August 2017,…
Judge Subjected to Staged Shaming Written By: Glen Allen, Esq. Respect for judges, free speech, and the rule of law seems in its death throes today at law schools, especially so-called “elite” law schools. A case in point is the speech Judge Kyle Duncan gave, or rather attempted to give, on March 9, 2023 at Stanford Law School. Judge Duncan,…
Written By: Glen Allen, Esq. “Glen, do you know an organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center and a woman named Heidi Beirich? She called to tell me she’s about to publish an article about you, accusing you of neo-Nazi ties. I assume she has the wrong Glen Allen.” Those words came through my phone on an August afternoon in…
Written By: Glen Allen, Esq. Ever since they were first created, social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have defended their biased, intolerant, erratic, and often Kafkaesque censorship practices on the ground that they are private companies and therefore not subject to First Amendment principles. In recent years, however, it has become clear that this “not state actors” rationale…
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