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Deepfakes or criminalizing free speech?: ‘It’s politics’ Bozeman attorney says of mailers in complaint

Lewistown resident Dan Bartel’s 1,872 mailers with doctored images of Republican state House District 68 candidate Jennifer Carlson of Churchill holding LGBTQ+ pride flags and wearing gender-pronoun buttons is free speech, argues a legal complaint filed in Montana U.S. District Court on Wednesday. “Plaintiff Dan Bartel

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Washington COVID-19 speech case

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case over whether the government can discipline doctors for what they say publicly. The case, Stockton v. Brown, challenged the Washington Medical Commission and the Washington Attorney General over its COVID-19 information policies. Two doctors who filed

Supreme Court bolsters donors’ free speech rights in unanimous crisis pregnancy center ruling

Supreme Court bolsters donors’ free speech rights in unanimous crisis pregnancy center ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for a chain of crisis pregnancy centers based in New Jersey to challenge a subpoena from New Jersey’s attorney general. First Choice Women’s Resource Centers operates at several locations throughout New Jersey. There are more than 2,500 of

EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota sued over social media warning requirement

(The Center Square) – An internet trade group filed a lawsuit against Minnesota on Wednesday morning, challenging a new law requiring websites to display warnings about social media use. NetChoice argues in NetChoice v. Ellison that this law is a government attack on free speech and has asked the U.S.

Supreme Court unanimously sides with pregnancy center

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, sided with a nonprofit pregnancy center in a federal lawsuit. The case, First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Davenport, focuses on a New Jersey pregnancy center that provides counseling and resources to pregnant women. In 2022,

Texas Ten Commandments law may reach Supreme Court

(The Center Square) – A federal appeals court ruling upholding a Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms is setting up a potential challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court over the role of religion in public education. In a decision issued this week, the U.S. Court

Readers ask about restraining presidential warmaking: Replying to thoughtful questions | David Adler

Few exercises of governmental power trigger more questions about constitutionality and legality, not to mention considerations of wisdom and judgment, than warmaking, particularly unilateral presidential warmaking. This is for good reason, of course, as American citizens bear the brunt of the toll that war exacts in lives lost and treasuries