NBC News:
After weathering a yearslong political and legal assault, researchers who study disinformation say they see reasons to be cautiously hopeful as their efforts heat up ahead of the 2024 election.
These researchers, along with the universities and nonprofits… Continue reading
This was a great conversation, featuring Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project), Richard Eidlin (Business for America), Ben Ginsberg (Hoover Institution, Stanford), moderated by Richard H. Pildes (NYU School of Law). Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0o197mXWM4
WSJ:
The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to reject a bid by GOP-led states to restrict the federal government from urging social-media companies to remove allegedly misleading posts or disinformation on their platforms, unless there is a threat of official… Continue reading
Judge Luttig and Laurence Tribe in the Altantic:
The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson.
In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the… Continue reading
Kate Shaw in the NYT:
In other words, in the Jan. 6 case brought by the special counsel Jack Smith, as important as what the court decides is when it decides. Slow-walking the case would be tantamount to a ruling… Continue reading
NYT:
When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in January to hear an appeal of a Colorado ruling that disqualified former President Donald J. Trump from that state’s primary ballot, many thought the court would soon resolve the issue for… Continue reading
Chicago Tribune reports.
You can find the order here.
It includes a stay until March 1, to give time for appeal.
I expect that there will continue to be requests for a stay of this ruling, which may make… Continue reading
Like many other observers, I thought the relatively long lag time between Donald Trump’s attempt to stay his criminal trial after losing in the district court and the D.C. Circuit meant the Court was not going to grant the… Continue reading
Arguments are just beginning, and at some point I’ll have to leave for class.
At this early point, it appears that Roberts, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Kagan have all expressed great skepticism of these rules.
Justice Jackson pointed to some of… Continue reading