Has the First Amendment Ever Been More Relevant?
Summary
Sarah Isgur and David French correct a previous error on congressional apportionment and discuss the unenforceability of Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order. They analyze First Amendment protections for publishing classified Pentagon leaks and a ruling granting non-citizens speech rights against visa revocation. The episode concludes with an Eighth Circuit decision striking down a Minnesota law that criminalized false statements about voter eligibility.
Topics discussed
Trump's mail-in ballot executive order and injunctions
Correction on the failed Congressional Apportionment Amendment
Book writing memory loss and the word 'hodiernal'
Pentagon non-concurs, leaks, and First Amendment protections
First Amendment rights of non-citizens and visa revocations
Minnesota felon voting rights and election misinformation laws
New Hampshire parents' silent protest at girls' soccer game
Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, and First Amendment defenses
Supreme Court cert petitions and district court dynamics
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