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Sunday, March 17, 2024

“Fifth Circuit Decision Granting Texas Parents a Right to Veto Federal Access to Contraception is a Hot Mess”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

Posted at 9:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States; Rather than addressing bankruptcy and patent forum and judge shopping, on which there is a large bipartisan consensus, the Judicial Conference rushed through a botched proposal in response to political pressure and Twitter noise”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Posted at 9:46 PM by Howard Bashman



“How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation; Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online”: Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers of The New York Times have this report.

Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post report that “‘Jawboning’ politicians who push to delete social media posts draw scrutiny; The Supreme Court is set to decide whether government demands to remove social media posts are censorship.”

Jan Wolfe and Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal report that “Covid-Era Case on Free Speech to Test Supreme Court; Justices to consider whether federal officials unlawfully pressured tech companies to suppress posts opposed to vaccines.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court to decide if White House went too far fighting social media misinformation; The case grew out of concern from conservatives that their views were being suppressed about 2020 election fraud, COVID-19 origins and treatments and other issues.”

John Fritze and Brian Fung of CNN report that “Supreme Court to debate whether White House crosses First Amendment line on social media disinformation.”

At the “Lawfare” blog, Justin Hendrix and Ryan Goodman have a post titled “A Conspiracy Theory Goes to the Supreme Court: How Did Murthy v Missouri Get This Far?

And also at the “Lawfare” blog, Mary B. McCord has a post titled “The Supreme Court Cannot Ignore the National Security Implications of the So-Called ‘Jawboning’ Case.”

Posted at 9:36 PM by Howard Bashman