■ The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed, for now, Mississippi’s social media age-verification law to take effect.
■ The deepfake of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was bad, but the proposed solution is delusional, a Princeton University professor contended in a New York Times opinion piece.
■ Newsmax has agreed to settle its defamation case with Dominion Voting Systems for $67 million.
■ A foreign election-interference law in Maine violates the First Amendment, an appeals court ruled.
Fight fear with FIRE. Stanford University’s student newspaper has filed a lawsuit with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression against the Trump administration claiming that weaponizing immigration law to silence political dissent is unconstitutional.
■ A woman facing charges stemming from a pro-Palestinian demonstration had her case dismissed by a Utah judge.
■ Indiana University has sanctioned an outspoken professor under its new intellectual diversity law.
■ An Alabama law banning DEI initiatives in public schools remains in place after a federal judge refused to block it.
Dr. Right? Former daytime-TV icon Dr. Phil is seemingly building his own MAGA-friendly news and entertainment network.
Religious immunization. The former county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming freedom of religion should have protected her.
■ Supreme Court justices likely will hear a long-running Florida football-prayer case, predicted a University of Dayton law professor.
Duck and cover. Navigating a less-cooperative Pentagon under the Trump administration has journalists at Stars and Stripes keeping a low profile while continuing to publish.
■ The police raid on a Kansas newspaper two years ago was a “massive failure,” the reporter who covered the story declared in an interview with the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ News Media Corp.’s closures of newspapers across five states leave many communities without a local news source.
■ A Palestinian journalist living in the United States shared his story about his friend and mentor, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
■ A foreign election-interference law in Maine violates the First Amendment, an appeals court ruled.
Fight fear with FIRE. Stanford University’s student newspaper has filed a lawsuit with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression against the Trump administration claiming that weaponizing immigration law to silence political dissent is unconstitutional.
■ A woman facing charges stemming from a pro-Palestinian demonstration had her case dismissed by a Utah judge.
■ Indiana University has sanctioned an outspoken professor under its new intellectual diversity law.
■ An Alabama law banning DEI initiatives in public schools remains in place after a federal judge refused to block it.
■ As state redistricting proposals generate headlines, constitutional scholar John R. Vile sheds light on how First Amendment rights of association can make a case against partisan gerrymandering.
Dr. Right? Former daytime-TV icon Dr. Phil is seemingly building his own MAGA-friendly news and entertainment network.
■ MSNBC will become MS Now as the network moves away from Comcast’s NBCUniversal TV empire.
■ The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters for America has been temporarily halted by a federal judge who called it a “straightforward First Amendment violation.”
■ University of Tennessee professor Stuart Brotman suggested that the country needs a National News Council now more than ever in an Editor & Publisher commentary.
■ Political leanings of Supreme Court justices are getting greater scrutiny in the press, contend a pair of judicial scholars.
■ University of Tennessee professor Stuart Brotman suggested that the country needs a National News Council now more than ever in an Editor & Publisher commentary.
■ Political leanings of Supreme Court justices are getting greater scrutiny in the press, contend a pair of judicial scholars.
Religious immunization. The former county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming freedom of religion should have protected her.
■ Supreme Court justices likely will hear a long-running Florida football-prayer case, predicted a University of Dayton law professor.
■ A President Trump-appointed federal judge tossed out an Oklahoma schools chief’s lawsuit apparently designed to silence a religious-freedom organization.
■ The Trump administration cannot restrict access to public information about federal spending, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.
■ A Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case was denied by a New York federal judge.
■ The Trump administration cannot restrict access to public information about federal spending, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.
■ A Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case was denied by a New York federal judge.
Duck and cover. Navigating a less-cooperative Pentagon under the Trump administration has journalists at Stars and Stripes keeping a low profile while continuing to publish.
■ The police raid on a Kansas newspaper two years ago was a “massive failure,” the reporter who covered the story declared in an interview with the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ News Media Corp.’s closures of newspapers across five states leave many communities without a local news source.
■ A Palestinian journalist living in the United States shared his story about his friend and mentor, Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
