• US supreme court tells lower courts to reconsider two free speech cases

    First amendment cases involving critics who were blocked from posting on public officials’ social media pagesThe US supreme court on Friday threw out a pair of judicial decisions relating to whether public officials can block critics on social media without violating constitutional protections for free speech.The justices vacated rulings by lower courts in two cases – one from California and another from Michigan – involving lawsuits brought under the US constitution’s first amendment by people...

  • 'Most Important Free Speech Case in Our Lifetime': Supreme Court Hears Biden Censorship Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in what's being described as one of the biggest free speech cases in a generation. The question at hand in Murthy v. Missouri was over whether the Biden administration went too far by pressuring social media sites to censor certain content. Conservatives argue the administration did indeed overstep its bounds, censoring some Americans along the way. Breaking News. Spirit-Filled Stories. Subscribe to Charisma on YouTube now! The targeted content...

  • Supreme Court Justices Balk At Red States’ Free Speech Absolutism In Social Media Case

    Even some of the right-wing justices balked Monday when a couple of red states argued against nearly any government intervention in social media content moderation.

  • The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case

    Outside the Supreme Court, a crowd in shirts reading “Speak your mind, stand your ground” and others hoisting signs with messages like “Fauci lied.”

  • A turbulent day for free speech at the Supreme Court

    When can the federal government use its coercive regulatory powers to silence ideas it doesn’t like on social media? That was the question presented to the Supreme Court on Monday, and while a majority seems ready to protect the First Amendment, too many justices seemed ready to give the government the benefit of the doubt. The key exchange […]

  • Editorial: Supreme Court should affirm that government complaints are not free speech violations

    Do government officials violate the 1st Amendment when they press internet platforms to remove or restrict misinformation about COVID-19, alleged election fraud or other matters of public interest? That proposition was presented to the Supreme Court on Monday, and many justices seemed appropriately skeptical. In one of several internet-related cases considered by the court this term, a lawyer for Louisiana and Missouri and some individuals defended an injunction saying that federal officials,...

  • Supreme Court mulls NRA’s free speech fight against NY regulator

    The Supreme Court weighed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) free speech case against a former New York regulator during oral arguments Monday. Over 75 minutes of arguments, the justices probed

  • Supreme Court Denies Case of Christian Parents Whose Trans-Identifying Child Was Taken from Them

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the case of two Indiana parents who asked the court to intervene after the state's Department of Child Services took their trans-identifying child away from them due to their biblical beliefs about sex and gender. This week the high court denied a writ of certiorari in the case of M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services submitted by Jeremy and Mary Cox. Breaking News. Spirit-Filled Stories. Subscribe to Charisma on YouTube now! The...

  • Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana social media lawsuit could set free speech standards

    The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.

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    Opinion: Free-speech cases shouldn’t neuter critical power of the government’s voice

    On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two free-speech cases that could have broad implications for the way the government participates in public discourse. Both cases involve private parties who claim that the government violated the First Amendment by coercing others to censor their speech. And both cases involve government officials who claim that they have a right to attempt to sway public opinion through their own speech. What’s hard about these cases is that both sides have merit....

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    Opinion: Free-speech cases shouldn’t neuter critical power of the government’s voice

    Opinion by Jennifer Jones (CNN) — On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two free-speech cases that could have broad implications for the way the government participates in public discourse. Both cases involve private parties who claim that the government violated the First Amendment by coercing others to censor their speech. And both cases

  • Supreme Court Will Hear NRA Free-Speech Lawsuit Against a Former New York State Official

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear from the National Rifle Association on Monday in a lawsuit against a former New York state official who the NRA says pressured banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup