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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TikTok Ban Takes Effect and App Goes Dark in the U.S.
The New York Times, January 19, 2025
The popular video app stopped working shortly before a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok was set to take effect on Sunday.
Does Banning TikTok solve the National Security Issue?
The New York Times, January 19, 2025
TikTok is set to be blocked in the U.S. after the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the app. TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform, has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers for its national security risks and its ties to China. Sapna Maheshwari, a business reporter for The New York Times, examines the security concerns and the reactions to the news.
Justices take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools
SCOTUSblog, January 17, 2025
The Supreme Court will decide whether a group of Maryland parents can opt to have their children exempted from LGBTQ-themed storybooks. The justices on Friday afternoon granted Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a coalition of parents from Montgomery County, Md., contend that requiring their children... The post Justices take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools 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Austin Sarat analyze Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s 2024 Year-End Report and examine his pattern of using historical references in his annual reports from 2021 to 2024.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
