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Missouri and Louisiana presidential primaries with Biden and Trump nominations. Democrats discontent over Israel-Hamas, Republicans dissent over Trump's ch...

Missouri GOP takes legal action to remove gubernatorial candidate with Ku Klux Klan ties.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri. Justices Kavanaugh and Kagan--who both worked in the White House--stated that it was fairly common for government officials to "berate" the press. Justice Kavanaugh observed that "experienced government press people throughout the federal government . . .. regularly…

Missouri Attorney General criticizes St. Louis high school for promoting divisive racial ideology and advocates for reforms in the juvenile justice system ...

Part of the Murthy v. Missouri challengers' claim is that the First Amendment bans the government from even "substantially encouraging" private entities to block user speech. And as I noted in the post below, I appreciate the difficulties with this claim (though I also appreciate its appeal). Here, though, I…

The government can't block viewpoints it condemns from its own property that has been opened to publicspeech. Should there be limits on government systematically and substantially encouraging private entities to block the same viewpoints from their property—which may be much more important to public debate than the government property where…

The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.

Plaintiffs in Murthy v Missouri argue White House requests to take down coronavirus misinformation violate first amendment

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.