#first-amendment

#first-amendment

Rightwing conspiracy fabulist Alex Jones has petitioned the US supreme court to block a massive defamation judgment imposed after he argued that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in which 20 children and six adults were killed was a hoax. In a filing to the US high court, Jones asked the justices to act immediately to prevent his website InfoWars from being handed over to the satirical news site The Onion.

Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution's First Amendment. "These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They're publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing public events," says David Greene, a civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Rather, the intent of the Secretaries was more invidious-to target a few for speaking out and then use the full rigor of the Immigration and Nationality Act (in ways it had never been used before) to have them publicly deported with the goal of tamping down pro-Palestinian student protests and terrorizing similarly situated non-citizen (and other) pro-Palestinians into silence because their views were unwelcome.

During the trial, lawyers for the associations presented witnesses who testified that the Trump administration had launched a coordinated effort to target students and scholars who had criticized Israel or showed sympathy for Palestinians. Not since the McCarthy era have immigrants been the target of such intense repression for lawful political speech, Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, told the court. The policy creates a cloud of fear over university communities, and it is at war with the First Amendment.

He was a producer of amateur porn,

On Sept. 19, Senior U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith sided with the plaintiffs' first two claims, denouncing "a viewpoint-based standard of review to Plaintiffs that disfavors applications deemed 'to promote gender ideology'" - a catch-all dogwhistle describing depictions of gender and sexuality outside rigid heterosexual marriage. The court "vacates and sets aside Defendants' current plan to implement the Executive Order."

The July 17 story about a note bearing Trump's signature that was sent to Epstein along with a sketch of a naked woman in 2003 is true and doesn't defame the president's character, lawyers for the 94-year-old News Corp. chairman emeritus said Monday in a request to dismiss the suit.

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.