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Modi govt may present draft guidelines on social media conduct before SC in Nov

The Supreme Court has directed the Union government to frame draft guidelines to regulate social media conduct, in active consultation with the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), The Hindu reported.

Newslaundry

Trump declares war on the Fed, setting up a titanic struggle for world's most important central bank

“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” Cook said.

Fortune

Prosecutions Under New "Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag" Executive Order Would Violate First Amendment

And this is so even though the order targets flag desecration that could be punished under more neutral rules.

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Trump's Executive Order Prohibiting Flag Burning Is Unconstitutional

The president is the last person who should confuse protected speech with incitement to violence.

Reason

Supreme Court Supports Trump In Legal Battles

Conservative Supreme Court justices express concern over lower courts defying decisions, emphasize adherence to precedents.

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Trump mandates flag burners face prosecution in one of biggest challenges to the First Amendment in decades

Burning an American flag has been considered protected speech since 1989

The Independent UK

The Federal Reserve could start resembling the Supreme Court

Fed governors typically step down before their terms expire, but they may stay on until a president from their political party is in the White House.

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India’s top court ordered 1 million stray dogs be removed from the streets. The backlash was immediate

IN FOCUS: Street dogs are a fixture of nearly every neighbourhood in Delhi, in most cases being fed and cared for by residents. So when the death of a child, apparently from rabies, prompted a court to order that all dogs be rounded up and confined to non-existent ‘shelters’, it…

The Independent UK

Judge Newman Loses Her Effort to Undo the "Temporary" Bar on Receiving Cases

The D.C. Circuit declines to reach the merits of many of the serious underlying constitutional questions.

Reason

Supreme Court lets Trump freeze $800M but hints his ambitious racist crusade may be on thin ice

Judge declares he has never seen anything like this.

We Got This Covered

Meet the complainants behind the Assam FIRs against journalists

In Assam, three recent FIRs have turned the spotlight on a pattern: journalists critical of the government hauled up under a new sedition-style law. There’s another trend – the complainants in at least two of the FIRs ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.

Newslaundry

Q&A on the Trump EPA’s effort to curtail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions - Roll Call

A look at the Trump EPA's attempt to rescind the "endangerment finding," which allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Roll Call

Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown

The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it

The Guardian - US

SC stays coercive action against Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar in Assam FIR

Days after the Guwahati Crime Branch booked The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and senior journalist Karan Thapar under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and other charges, the Supreme Court granted them interim protection from arrest, LiveLaw reported.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration To Cancel $783 Million In NIH Diversity Grants, Igniting National Debate Over DEI Funding

In a 5-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court temporarily allowed the administration led by President Donald Trump to go ahead with canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants tied to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The Conversation

By ‘focusing on the family,’ James Dobson helped propel US evangelicals back into politics – making the Religious Right into the cultural force it is today

For decades, one name was ubiquitous in American evangelical homes: Focus on the Family. A media empire with millions of listeners and readers, its messages about parenting, marriage and politics seemed to reach every conservative Christian church and school.

The Guardian - US

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism

Reason

Is Gay Marriage Really Under Threat at the Supreme Court?

Asking SCOTUS to hear a case is not the same thing as convincing SCOTUS to hear a case.

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Brazil Police Accuse Bolsonaro And Son Of Obstructing Coup Trial

Brazilian police called Wednesday for former president Jair Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo to be charged with obstruction of justice for attempting to interfere with the ex-leader's trial over plotting an attempted coup.

AAP

Man walks free after jury acquits him of murder

A man has been found not guilty of murder after arguing he was acting in self-defence when another man was fatally stabbed.

Al Jazeera

US court blocks Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in school classrooms

Texas is the third state in the past month to see its requirement to display the commandments struck down in court.

Reason

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Another day, another unconstitutional Executive Order on the way?

Reason

9 years ago, Marco Rubio explained why Trump’s birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional

The 2016 brief defended the understanding of the 14th Amendment that the president wants to overturn.

Reason

Fifth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against NLRB Proceedings, Distinguishing Humphrey's Executor

The Court concludes that limitations on the removal of NLRB Board members and NLRB administrative law judges are both unconstitutional.

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‘We are at war’: The GOP’s last hope is collapsing as a conservative court ruins their little scheme

Some courts want to stop gerrymandering.

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