A regional school unit violated the First Amendment when it banned Shawn McBreairty from attending school functions and stepping foot…
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On June 21, the United States Supreme Court ruled Maine’s prohibition on sectarian schools from receiving public funds through the…
Before the Supreme Court issues its final opinion for the October 2021 term in June, it will rule on a…
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…
On January 7, Gov. Janet Mills vetoed LD 151, a bill that would have allowed farmworkers to collectively bargain in…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
Should government officials be allowed to choose which journalists report on them? Most Americans probably would say no, because the First…
That darn First Amendment. This week, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Occupational licensing has already been called out for hobbling opportunity, impeding mobility, protecting established practitioners from competition, and for raising…
Approximately 25 percent of jobs in the United States require some kind of occupational license. A condition on which many…
In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of cheerleader Brandi Levy last week regarding the First Amendment…
Even if the allegations in Loder’s lawsuit are not true, the fact that we can’t easily know is reason enough to close the doors of this poisonous arm of government overreach.
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…
After Maine Democrats sent a letter to the state’s top public safety official Monday calling for an investigation into the…
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, horrified Americans were ready to embrace virtually any proposal that promised to keep them safe.…
The basic problem with even a little bit of socialism is that, in order for socialist policy to work, it…
The Supreme Court of the United States recently voted to grant relief to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and…
In a decision handed down late Thanksgiving Eve, a five-Justice majority of the Supreme Court struck down parts of New…
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently came under fire for comments he made at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention.…
Do you remember this spring when we were told to stay home to stop the spread of COVID-19? To close…
As a long-time supporter of the First Amendment and the value of free and open inquiry, leftist cancel culture efforts…
Four Maine citizens filed a lawsuit late last week against Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, Attorney General Aaron Frey and…
In 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that requiring public-sector workers to pay dues or fees to a union…
The Legislative Council on Wednesday met to vote on nearly 400 bills submitted by lawmakers for consideration in the second…
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…
Lawmakers on Maine’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee on Monday held a public hearing on LD 665, sponsored by Rep.…
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…
In response to the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, several leftist groups have been…
By S.E. Robinson U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock Thursday invoked George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in a decision…
Conan O’Brien said last week that the mayor of Washington, D.C., had asked the owner of the Washington Redskins football…