The current rules regulating free speech and the "monopoly social media” (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Google/YouTube -- together, the MOSM) are a mess, but the basic principles should be obvious. They should be treated as the new public square, and subject to First Amendment requirements.Source: Big Tech Monopolies Are a Threat to First Amendment...
Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday urging the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough antitrust investigation into Google’s monopolistic power over the internet after the tech giant’s recent attack on The Federalist.Source: Blackburn Pushes DOJ To Examine Google's Power Over Free Speech...
Cowboys for Trump rode on Otero County Sunday, March 22, 2020. Alamogordo Daily News Cowboys For Trump claimed New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver "unfairly weaponized complaints" in order to force the organization to name its financial donors.Source: Cowboys for Trump sue Secretary of State in federal court...
After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.Source: Barring a landslide, what’s probably not coming on Nov. 3? A result in the race for the White House....
Early this month, the Legislature filed a writ petition — Legislature of the State of California v.Source: Supreme Court appears ready to quickly order redistricting delay...
A pair of faithless electors cases from 2016 have made their way to the Supreme Court. (Disclosure: I filed an amicus brief on behalf of myself in support of neither party here.) SCOTUSblog posts for Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Baca are here and here.Source: Oral argument analysis: Will the Tenth Amendment make a comeback in...
