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The Sandy Hook families who successfully sued Alex Jones for defamation in two states are anticipating trials to determine his penalties now that his quest for bankruptcy has ended. (newstimes, June 8, 2022, by Rob Ryser) “Initially, writes Dan Solomon in the Texas Monthly, June 8, 2022, “it appeared as if the cases might present some compelling constitutional questions about whether Jones’s speech was protected under the First Amendment. As they progressed, though, it became clear that

Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post, June 5, 2022, warns that in retweeting or posting an arresting article, a reader should be aware that the article may not be a product of local news but rather fake news concocted to promote a political stance. Such a story emerged recently that a suburban Chicago school was assigning grades partly based on skin color or ethnicity. The article was published by the West Cook News, whose aim

Georgetown lecturer Ilya Shapiro was reinstated last week after the university suspended him for a tweet saying that President Joe Biden was not nominating the best pick to the Supreme Court but a “lessor Black woman.” (The Hill, June 2, 2022, by Monique Beals) Rather than accept his reinstatement and the conditions it specifies, Shapiro choose to resign. “IDEAA [Georgetown’s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action],” writes Shapiro, “asserts that if I ‘were

Signalling that they would likely consider the case at a later time, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to grant an injunction against a Texas law prohibiting social media platforms from removing posts based on content. (The New York Times, May 31, 2022, by Adam Liptak) Law professor Ilya Somin in Reason, May 31, 2022, writes that with a 5-4 decision, there is cause to think that at least five justices think the Texas law