Jameel Jaffer

“Trump seems to be succeeding just through the force of his daily verbal assaults in shaking trust in the press and in other institutions that are crucial to our democracy,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. When the president calls every piece of ...

“Trump seems to be succeeding just through the force of his daily verbal assaults in shaking trust in the press and in other institutions that are crucial to our democracy,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. When the president calls every piece of ...

But are ad boycotts acceptable forms of protest? The question is often asked amid such controversies—often by TV hosts who, what a coincidence, rely on advertiser support—and the short answer is: of course! Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, put the ...

Jameel Jaffer will soon have his day in court, and the judge's decision could change the social media behavior of President Donald Trump, he told the audience at his Poynter Fellowship in Journalism talk at Whitney Humanities Center on Feb. 10. Jaffer is the current director of the Knight Institute at ...

2013 Reuters article, Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the reported incidents of NSA employees' violations of the law are likely “the tip of the iceberg” of lax data safeguards. The laws guiding the NSA's spying authority in the first place are a bigger issue, he said.

As the social media habits of President Donald Trump continue to draw criticism, Jameel Jaffer, the founding director of Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, visited campus on Monday to discuss a lawsuit the Knight Institute is bringing against Trump for his Twitter use. Jaffer, a civil ...

Jameel Jaffer, founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, will speak on the topic “@realDonaldTrump: The President, His Twitter Account, and the First Amendment,” on Monday, Feb. 12. His talk, sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, will take place from ...

Jameel Jaffer, who worked in both institutions, tells me this is a massive strategic error by the White House. He says it plays into this partisan narrative about intelligence, and it deprives people of the benefit of both sides of this debate, which has become really political. He also calls this an unforced error by ...

When Donald Trump began to block a growing number of Americans from seeing his tweets, the Knight First Amendment Institute shot back. The organization warned the President in June that the Twitter account is a public forum, and that excluding citizens (novelist Stephen King is among those blocked) ...

I'll be testifying tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Judge Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. I intend to focus on Judge Gorsuch's tenure at the Justice Department in 2005-2006 and, more specifically, on the role that he played in the Bush administration's efforts to marginalize ...

Jameel Jaffer — Director of Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute and Executive Editor of Just Security — has been invited to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be a Justice on the Supreme Court. Congratulations, Jameel, in being ...

Columbia University has tapped the American Civil Liberties Union's deputy legal director to head its new Knight First Amendment Institute. Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger on Tuesday announced Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU as founding director of the First Amendment Institute, which was ...

Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) is founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. He previously served as Deputy Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, which houses the ACLU's work on human rights, national security, speech, ...

The timing couldn't be better, says Jameel Jaffer, the institute's executive director. “The freedoms of speech and the press are under extraordinary stress right now.” 'GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY': In an excerpt from a forthcoming book, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos recounts his standoff with Donald Trump, ...