• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Yeah, but this Supreme Court doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution or consistent rulings, only partisan bullshit. Citizens United ruled that money is free speech, but they refused to rule on an anti-BDS law because they would have either had to rule against their ideology or explain how withholding money is not free speech.

    If a lower court rules in favor of the bill, they’ll decline to hear the case. If a lower court rules against it, I bet they’ll make up some bullshit about how the first amendment applies to journalism and public speech, but not private companies providing a service, even if that service is speech. They’re barely even trying to pretend that they’re not a partisan institution anymore.