Supreme Court tosses dispute over Trump blocking critics on Twitter By Melissa Quinn Lawmakers weigh new regulations for social media
Washington The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a dispute over former President Donald Trump s ability to block his critics on Twitter to be tossed out, bringing the battle over Mr. Trump s Twitter account to a close as he is no longer in office and has since been banned from the platform.
The high court vacated a decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against the former president and sent the case back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss it as moot.
House Bill 218, introduced Jan. 21 in the Montana Legislature, aims to ban free speech zones on university campuses throughout the state, in an effort to ensure students’ First Amendment
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Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley will again seek to end the legacy of a clause long used as a tool of control over people of color.
America was founded on beautiful principles of equality and justice. And our nation was also founded on horrific realities of slavery and white supremacy. If we are ever going to fully deliver on our founding principles, we have to directly confront those gruesome realities.
One deeply disturbing reality is that when our nation ratified the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery, it included an exception. In the second clause, often referred to as the Punishment Clause, are the words that allowed thousands of Black Americans to be re-enslaved during and after reconstruction, and set off a chain reaction that has destroyed the lives of generations of Black Americans: except as a punishment for crime …