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Former President Donald Trump was handed a major victory on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he cannot be excluded from Colorado’s primary election ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform, shortly after the ruling was handed down. Speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump said he hoped the ruling would “unify” the country in allowing him… Source link

California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks the Constitution should be amended to accommodate the gun regulations he favors. But in the meantime, he is trying out a different strategy: If we ignore the Second Amendment, maybe it will go away. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to carry guns in public for self-defense, saying states could not require residents to demonstrate a “special need” before allowing them to exercise that right. Newsom responded to what he called a “very bad… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs states’ authority to block former president  Yahoo News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘Trump Too Small’ T-shirt slogan turns into US Supreme Court battle  Yahoo News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Supreme Court hears a case that could transform the internet  The Washington Post Source link

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is stepping into a messy political fight next month over the meaning of a 26-word law that big tech firms describe as a linchpin of the modern internet but that critics say has led to the promotion of terrorism. A closely watched dispute between YouTube-owner Google and the family of an American killed in an Islamic State group attack in Paris in 2015 will put the court in the middle of a conflict about when internet companies may be successfully sued for… Source link

WASHINGTON – One of the biggest cases the Supreme Court will wrestle with this year deals with the scope of a controversial law that shields Big Tech companies like Google and Twitter from legal liability for most of the content users post on their sites.  Despite the significance of the issue – and a roiling debate over content moderation on social media – most of the justices will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google next month without ever having revealed their thoughts on the… Source link

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold two days of hearings on a pair of cases that directly challenge the scope of Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that establishes the ground rules for regulating online speech. The cases will represent the first Supreme Court consideration of Section 230, and could lay the groundwork for a dramatic change in the way the internet is governed. Source link

Google argued that if the Supreme Court rules to scale back a liability shield for internet companies, the decision could lead to more censorship and hate speech online, according to a brief filed Thursday.  The filing showcases Google’s argument in a case facing the high court that centers around Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision that protects companies from being sued over content posted by third parties.  “Gutting Section… Source link

CNN  —  An unfavorable ruling against Google in a closely watched Supreme Court case this term about YouTube’s recommendation engine could have sweeping unintended consequences for much of the wider internet, the search giant argued in a legal filing Thursday. Google, which owns YouTube, is fighting a high-stakes court battle over whether algorithmically generated YouTube recommendations are exempt from Big… Source link