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First Amendment

SCOTUS shatters party-candidate spending limits for GOP 

The Trump administration had vowed not to enforce coordinated expenditure limits, but a relic of the vice president’s Senate tenure gave Republicans an opportunity to nix the regulation for good.

Supreme Court won’t help Roy Moore preserve $8.2M defamation award

Roy Moore sued a Democratic super PAC over running an ad falsely implying he solicited sex from a 14-year-old during an unsuccessful Senate campaign the Republican politician launched after being booted from Alabama’s high court for the second time.

Trump impeachment lawyer snubbed by SCOTUS in challenge to press freedom ruling

The justices shut down a request by Alan Dershowitz to hear his claim that CNN deliberately misconstrued the attorney's remarks about impeachable offenses.

Class certification granted for journalists suing over immigration protest crackdown in SoCal

A federal judge found the plaintiffs had shown that the Department of Homeland Security "treats the mere public recording of its agents as a threat" that it responds to with violence.

Texas Board of Education approves reading list requiring students to study Bible stories

The list includes picture book versions of "David and Goliath" and "Daniel and the Lion’s Den" for elementary students and excerpts from the Book of Job for high schoolers.

‘Life of a Klansman’ prison ban

BOSTON, Mass. — The Massachusetts Court of Appeals vacated a judgment in favor of a prison in a prisoner’s lawsuit over prison officials’ decision that the book “Life of a Klansman” by Edward Ball was contraband and that the inmate wasn’t allowed to have it. The inmate’s “complaint plausibly alleges that the [prison officials] are violating his constitutional rights by allowing inflammatory media against one race to be distributed, while not allowing [him] to possess anti-racist material that may be perceived as inflammatory against another race.” He also alleged that the prison played videos of Louis Farrakhan “advocating hate of White People” and held books titled with racial epithets in its library.

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