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Again and again, U.S. Supreme Court slaps down 5th Circuit

The New Orleans-based court, which hears Texas cases, is pushing the federal judiciary to the right, even when it gets overturned by a higher court.

The Texas Tribune

Social Media Moderation Is Speech, Says Supreme Court

The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

Reason

SCOTUS Dodges a Crucial Problem With Disarming People Based on Restraining Orders

The Court says "a credible threat" justifies a ban on gun possession but does not address situations where there is no such judicial finding.

Reason

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SCOTUS Makes It Easier for Victims of Retaliatory Arrests To Vindicate Their First Amendment Rights

The justices ruled that "objective evidence" of retaliation does not require "very specific comparator evidence."

Reason

A Federal Judge Rejects the Lame Excuses of Texas Cops Who Kidnapped a Supposedly 'Abandoned' Teenager

The decision clears the way for a jury to consider Megan and Adam McMurry's constitutional claims against the officers who snatched their daughter.

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to medication abortion drug - Roll Call

The Supreme Court upheld access to the commonly used medication abortion drug mifepristone in a unanimous decision Thursday.

Roll Call

Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Face the Illogical Consequences of an Arbitrary Gun Law

Their cases illustrate the injustice of taking away people’s Second Amendment rights based on nonviolent crimes

Reason

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These Strange Bedfellows Want SCOTUS To Remind the 5th Circuit That Journalism Is Not a Crime

An ideologically diverse mix of individuals and organizations supports a Texas journalist who was arrested for asking questions.

Reason

A Cop's Corruption Allegedly Cost an Innocent Man 2 Years of His Life. Should She Get Qualified Immunity?

Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.

Reason

Can This Woman Sue the Rogue Prosecutor Who Allegedly Helped Upend Her Life?

Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.

Reason

Supreme Court upholds funding structure for consumer watchdog agency

The opinion was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who reversed the decision of the 5th Circuit. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented.

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Supreme Court upholds financial agency's 'novel' funding structure - Roll Call

The Supreme Court upheld the funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday as constitutional.

Roll Call

Galveston County redistricting case draws divide among federal appeals court judges

The 5th Circuit expressed skepticism about arguments from both sides in considering whether a coalition of Black and Latino voters should be granted the same protections as a single racial group under the Voting Rights Act.

The Texas Tribune

Here Is Why a Federal Judge Rejected Hunter Biden's Second Amendment Challenge to His Gun Charges

Likening drug users to people who are "mentally ill and dangerous," the ruling says barring them from owning firearms is not unconstitutional on its face.

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Supreme Court Won't Stop Texas Porn Law From Taking Effect

"We will continue to fight for the right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight," says the group challenging the law.

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Journalism Is Not a Crime, Even When It Offends the Government

Julian Assange and Priscilla Villarreal were both arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal.

Reason

A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism

Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.

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SCOTUS Misses a Chance To Protect Peaceful Protesters

Under a legal theory endorsed by the 5th Circuit, Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence.

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5Th Circuit Court: Conservative Stronghold For Legal Battles

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