Social Media Deplatforming Probably OK (Constitution news round-up)

1A: Public access cable TV is not the government and free speech rules don’t apply, Supreme Court decides (implications for social media)
https://www.jurist.org/news/2019/06/us-supreme-court-rules-public-access-television-provider-is-not-a-state-actor/

4A: ICE can’t use a search warrant for employment records as a pretext to round up 130 illegal aliens in a workplace raid (9th Circuit)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/9th-circuit-challenges-ice-warrant-and-arrests-reverses-deportation-order_2965810.html
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https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/

1A Establishment: Atheist group drops suit challenging tax exemption for clergy housing; exemption is not sponsorship or active involvement of government in religion
https://freebeacon.com/issues/atheists-drop-1-billion-church-suit/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=e4af8d1b40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_16_07_21_COPY_203&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-e4af8d1b40-45628225

5A Double Jeopardy: Supreme Court lets stand lower court ruling allowing federal and state prosecutions for the same conduct; implications for Trump pardons
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/17/supreme-court-upholds-double-jeopardy-rule-that-could-limit-trump-pardons/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1FME5HUTNaVEU0WVdRdyIsInQiOiJpdlJGdUZpdDlyQVI5XC9SejZGaytUVUtZSHdUU1NDUjBBaEk4endRYjltenloOVpXamRzQ2VuQnlaSW9Qekc4aG5wWUlRdldldHo5UHp4K2tqbUppdmpXS3piSWI4MDNhaVlDNkZ3VXRtcFZyMmUrNDJuNVlJcTdHUTI5M1wvZGVZIn0%3Dhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-sends-gay-wedding-cake-dispute-back-state-court-n1018176

4A: Carpenter won his case at the Supreme Court last year, but warrantless search of his cellphone location data was in good faith, so he stays in prison (6th Circuit)
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/

1A: Cleveland to pay $225K to man arrested for burning U.S. flag.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/us/flag-burning-cleveland.html
 
1A: President Trump supports constitutional amendment prohibiting burning U.S. flag
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/15/donald-trump-backs-constitutional-amendment-to-ban/
 
1A: Texas becomes 17th state to enact campus free speech legislation
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/america-is-in-the-middle-of-quiet-free-speech-revolution-on-campus/
 
1A: Vermont ‘revenge porn’ statute facially constitutional, but posters not in romantic relationship with the person affected escape the statute’s reach (Vermont Supreme Court)
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/vermont-supreme-court-reads-revenge-porn-law-narrowly/
 
Free Expression: French government brings criminal charges against political leader Marine Le Pen for posting truthful pictures of ISIS atrocities
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/32591-le-pen-show-the-truth-about-isis-get-charged-with-hate-speech?vsmaid=4953&vcid=1476

2A: Guns used far more often in self-defense than in crime
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/17/gun-rights-made-all-the-difference-for-these-would-be-victims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gun-rights-made-all-the-difference-for-these-would-be-victims?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpJME1tTTNNREZqTm1GaiIsInQiOiJCYzdzUTFDbFpqNVg4VDZBWUlMQTNWYm9wdk5PT0I4d2hcLzlBS2J1OUhnWm5NYUhLTGhTY04zdk5JN0FoT3A2WUhCN2c1ODJQS3pjWUtWdTFOVE9mRzg3b3lhOEZXZk1qR04zREtJWkIwMjlBNlJDcE9CMzZIVzI0Y05tUjZLdjEifQ%3D%3D
 
2A: Virginia Beach killing ground was a gun-free zone (duh!)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-free-zone-stopped-va-beach-victim-from-carrying-pistol-to-work-lawyer-says/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=1c76667021-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_12_08_53_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1c76667021-45628225
 
4A,14A: Michigan’s practice of storing blood samples from every newborn may violate children’s 4th Amendment rights and parents’ 14th Amendment right to direct their children’s medical care
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/

8A: report finds civil asset forfeiture does not help police solve more crimes as claimed; forfeitures spike up when local economies are depressed
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/
 
8A: serving prisoners only two meals a day is constitutional as long as calorie count is maintained (7th Circuit)
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/
 
14A: building inspector so biased against Asians he issues them violations while off duty; probable equal protection violation (2nd Circuit)
https://reason.com/2019/06/14/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-7/
 
14A: Michigan AG says question of state agencies puffing up sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and transgenderism is before Supreme Court, so she doesn’t have to follow previous AG’s opinion that the puffing up in her state was invalid. Huh?
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/18/nessel-urges-lgbt-bias-probes-says-schuette-opinion-not-binding/1491169001/

Commerce Clause: homophobic assault at Amazon facility affects interstate commerce ‘in the aggregate’, justifying federal Hate Crimes Act prosecution, so says 4th Circuit panel
https://reason.com/2019/06/16/appellate-court-upholds-federal-hate-crime-act-conviction-based-on-commerce-clause/

“Constitutional Text and State Sovereign Immunity”
https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/06/18/constitutional-text-and-state-sovereign-immunity/

Shame! U.S. women’s national soccer team star won’t ever sing the national anthem or put her hand over her heart again because U.S. is so horrible bad unjust and unequal. You’re benefitting from representing the U.S., lady. Why don’t you have the courage of your convictions and get off the team, huh?
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/megan-rapinoe-national-anthem-sing-us-soccer-world-cup-211549494.html