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…
White Female Soccer Player Settles Political-Discrimination Case Involving Her Refusal To Kneel For BLM A recent development in a First Amendment case involving the conservative beliefs of a white, female college-soccer player deserves attention from Free Expression Foundation supporters and all advocates against political-opinion discrimination. Last December, white Virginia Tech soccer player, Kiersten Hening, won the opportunity to have her…
The Growing Use of Geofence Warrants Imperils Civil Liberties Written by Glen K. Allen, Esq Recent court filings reveal that Google, by means of its Location History function that many Google users (often unknowingly) opt into, has tracked and recorded extensive location data for over 500 million people. Few of us are aware our location histories are being tracked and…
The January 6 Defendant Seditious Conspiracy Trials Written by Glen K. Allen, Esq I am old enough to recall when a person in good faith could contend that the American political experiment contains vital elements of Jeffersonian democracy. The vestiges of Jeffersonian principles in our present out-of-touch and out-of-control federal government, however, are rapidly being obliterated. No events signal their…
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