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Supreme Court to hear arguments on funding for financial protection agency - Roll Call

The Biden administration wants justices to overturn a ruling that invalidated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure.

Roll Call

Supreme Court to weigh cases on guns, regulations and redistricting in new term - Roll Call

The Supreme Court starts a new term Monday with cases that will test how far the conservative majority could reshape the nation’s laws.

Roll Call

A Former Twitter Executive's Highly Selective Concern About 'Coercive Influences' on Social Media

Yoel Roth worries about government meddling in content moderation, except when Democrats target "misinformation."

Reason

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The 5th Circuit Agrees That Federal Officials Unconstitutionally 'Coerced' or 'Encouraged' Online Censorship

The appeals court narrowed a preliminary injunction against such meddling but confirmed the threat that it poses to freedom of speech.

Reason

Former Prisoner Can Sue Officials Who Illegally Detained Him for 2 Months, 5th Circuit Says

The case is just one example of miscalculations that routinely keep Louisiana prisoners behind bars after they complete their sentences.

Reason

Time to extinguish the claim that you can’t yell ‘fire in a crowded theater’

A court decision against a Louisiana man who made a COVID joke illustrates the continuing influence of a misbegotten, century-old analogy that is frequently used as an excuse to punish or censor constitutionally protected speech.

Chicago Sun-Times

A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy

A federal judge compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook jest to "falsely shouting fire in a theatre."

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'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a COVID-19 Joke, the 5th Circuit Says

The appeals court ruled that a Facebook post alluding to World War Z was clearly protected by the First Amendment.

Reason

Lawmakers urge Supreme Court to keep domestic violence gun law - Roll Call

Two groups of lawmakers urged the Supreme Court to reverse a decision that struck down a nearly 30-year-old gun control law.

Roll Call

Mississippi seeks new court hearing to revive its permanent stripping of some felons' voting rights

Mississippi is asking a federal appeals court for a second hearing on whether it can permanently strip voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies

The Independent UK

Appeals Court Rules in Much-Anticipated Abortion Pills Case

Plus: Court urged to stop Arkansas' social media age verification law from taking effect in September, legalizing medical marijuana linked to lower insurance premiums, and more...

Reason

Decision sets up likely Supreme Court showdown on abortion pill - Roll Call

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling left in place the FDA’s initial approval of the drug, but struck changes made to ease access to it.

Roll Call

5th Circuit Says Prosecuting a Cannabis Consumer for Possessing Guns Violated the Second Amendment

The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.

Reason

A Louisiana Man Was Jailed for Criticizing Police. A Federal Court Wasn't Having It.

The decision supports the notion that victims are entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.

Reason

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Suicide Down 8.4 Percent Among Teens and Young Adults

Plus: How would Jesus vote?, appeals court strikes gun ban for marijuana users, and more...

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Appeals court weighs order on social media content moderation - Roll Call

An appellate court panel heard arguments Thursday about the government's ability to contact social media companies on content moderation.

The Texas Tribune

Part 3: Under Trump, Texas’ foot soldiers became federal judges, securing a conservative stronghold in the courts

A federal judiciary full of ideological allies is helping Texas block Democratic priorities and advance right-wing legal doctrines. But the bigger prize is conservative control of the rule of law itself.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court to decide gun rights case on domestic violence

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law can prohibit gun possession for people who are subject to domestic violence orders, the first Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court since a decision last year that expanded the right to carry firearms in public.

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Supreme Court to decide gun rights case on domestic violence - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law can prohibit gun possession for people who are subject to domestic violence orders.

Reason

A Year Post-Dobbs, Major Shifts in Abortion Access and Politics

Plus: Court rules against judge who threw child stars in jail during parents' custody dispute, inside the FTC's attempt to stop Microsoft from acquiring Call of Duty, and more...

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Stop Piling Charges on Mom of 6-Year-Old Shooter

Plus: Michigan Supreme Court takes up case on warrantless drone spying, Obamacare legal battles continue, and more...

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For $6.5 Million, Durham Report Finds FBI Didn't Have Solid Dirt on Trump and Russia

Plus: Reexamining the roots of qualified immunity, who's really hurt by business regulations, and more...

The Independent UK

3 judges who chipped away abortion rights to hear federal abortion pill appeal

Three appeals court judges with a history of supporting restrictions on abortion will hear arguments May 17 on whether a widely used abortion drug should remain available

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Second Court Upholds FCC’s Broadband Subsidy Delegation

Says USAC is sufficiently subordinate to pass constitutional muster

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Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS closes its April 2023 sitting

Welcome to the April 24 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

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