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Will Creeley

Will Creeley is legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He oversees the organization's legal advocacy, litigation and policy work and writes and speaks about freedom of expression.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Will Creeley on Education, Free Speech, and Immigration Policy, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Will Creeley

Will Creeley

Role at the time: FIRE legal director interviewed by Democracy Now!

Condemned

Statement summary

Creeley condemns the chilling of student speech and the use of immigration enforcement against protected expression.

“the chill is the point”
Open the original interview (opens in a new tab)Stanford student newspaper wins suit over speech-based deportationsWill Creeley on chilling speech; George Porteous on harm already caused
Why we used this label

Creeley criticizes immigration enforcement used to chill protected expression, the fixed reference point for this case.

Read statementRubio appeals Stanford Daily's protected-speech ruling; FIRE defends it

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