Supreme Court sides with NRA
in New York First Amendment case

Doug Cunningham @ UPI The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday unanimously ruled for the National Rifle Association in a First Amendment dispute with the New York Department of Financial Services. The decision allows an NRA lawsuit to move forward in state court with First Amendment claims against the agency and its former superintendent Maria Vullo. The Supreme Court decision held that when a government entity invokes legal sanctions and other means of coercion to "achieve the suppression" of disfavored speech it violates the First Amendment.    "Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the Supreme Court opinion. Sotomayor wrote that Vullo, then superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, did that by "allegedly pressuring regulated entities to help her stifle the NRA's pro-gun advocacy by threatening enforcement actions against those entities that refused to disassociate from the NRA and other gun-promotion advocacy groups. "   ... Full Story Democrats Promise Coordinated Assault On SCOTUS If They Don’t Get Their Way Democrats are so desperate to keep the Supreme Court from torpedoing their lawfare efforts against former President Donald Trump that members like Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., are openly vowing to launch a coordinated attack on the judicial branch if they don’t get their way. Last week, The New York Times published a smear piece on Justice Samuel Alito “to indict the conservative judge as a partisan ideologue corrupted by far-right politics” all because an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flew outside his New Jersey beach home last year, my colleague Tristan Justice explained. The story came days after another hit piece alleged Alito was compromised because of an upside-down American flag flown by his wife. ... Full Story

 

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