Scott Wilkens
@scottbwilkens.bsky.social
Senior Counsel, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Jenner & Block alum; McKinsey & Company alum; 🇺🇸 & 🇩🇪 citizen
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
Government has no business policing media for viewpoint bias or balance. The FCC must repeal its news distortion policy, urges a bipartisan group of 11 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners & other top officials in a petition we filed today with @protectdemocracy.org
protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...
protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
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“This report is of singular importance to the public because it addresses allegations of grave criminal conduct by the nation’s highest-ranking official, and should be made public without further delay,” says @scottbwilkens.bsky.social. More about today's order: knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...
Appeals Court Finds Undue Delay, Orders Prompt Ruling in Trump Classified Documents Case
knightcolumbia.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“This report is of singular importance to the public because it addresses allegations of grave criminal conduct by the nation’s highest-ranking official, and should be made public without further delay,” says @scottbwilkens.bsky.social. More about today's order: knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...
We're asking the 11th Circuit to compel Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on a motion @knightcolumbia.org filed over 6 months ago seeking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump’s mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/documents/uj...
Knight Institute's Petition for Writ of Mandamus
knightcolumbia.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We're asking the 11th Circuit to compel Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on a motion @knightcolumbia.org filed over 6 months ago seeking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump’s mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/documents/uj...
Columbia University today, Paul Weiss yesterday. They are very different institutions with very different missions, but their capitulations to President Trump are both signs that our democracy is unraveling.
March 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Columbia University today, Paul Weiss yesterday. They are very different institutions with very different missions, but their capitulations to President Trump are both signs that our democracy is unraveling.
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"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org asserts a First Amendment right of access to Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump's mishandling of classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
Knight Institute Seeks Immediate Release of Special Counsel’s Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Classified Documents
knightcolumbia.org
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org asserts a First Amendment right of access to Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump's mishandling of classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
We filed this important motion today seeking public release of Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
Institute Asks Judge in Trump Documents Case to Disclose Special Counsel Report
The report is the second volume of a report Jack Smith wrote after dropping the federal criminal cases he brought against Donald J. Trump because of his 2024 election victory.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We filed this important motion today seeking public release of Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
My recent op-ed in The Hill about Elon Musk and his attacks on free speech thehill.com/opinion/judi...
The courts must decide between Elon Musk and the First Amendment
Musk’s efforts to silence those whose speech he dislikes are not limited to posting to his 200 million followers on the social media platform he owns.
thehill.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My recent op-ed in The Hill about Elon Musk and his attacks on free speech thehill.com/opinion/judi...