TikTok plans to comply with federal legislation banning the app for U.S. users, according to sources. The 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act, H.R. 8038, requires parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. assets by January 19, 2025, or face a ban nationwide. Read More.
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Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned
The New York Times, January 17, 2025
The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million users.
TikTok Makes Last-Minute Push as Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule on Ban
The New York Times, January 17, 2025
With the court signaling it will release a decision on Friday, lobbyists for the app pushed lawmakers to shift course.
Supreme Court divided on Texas age-verification law for porn sites
SCOTUSblog, January 15, 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. Last year a federal appeals court in New Orleans allowed the state to enforce the law, holding... The post Supreme Court divided on Texas age-verification law for porn sites appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Chief Justice Roberts’s Annual Report Foreshadows a Future of Gaslighting
Justia's Verdict, January 9, 2025
Attorney Lauren Stiller Rikleen and Amherst professor Austin Sarat analyze Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s 2024 Year-End Report and examine his pattern of using historical references in his annual reports from 2021 to 2024. Ms. Rikleen and Professor Sarat argue that Roberts uses selective historical examples and appeals to judicial independence as rhetorical devices to deflect attention from ethical concerns within the Supreme Court, particularly regarding Justice Clarence Thomas’s alleged ethical lapses and Roberts’s own refusal to enforce stronger ethical standards for the Court.
Courts in ‘State of Disarray’ on Law Disarming Felons
The New York Times, January 6, 2025
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ducked Second Amendment challenges to the law. Starkly differing decisions from federal appeals courts last month may change that.
National Day of Mourning for James Earl Carter, Jr.
Supreme Court of the United States, December 30, 2024
