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** JULY 9, 2023
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Circle the Wagons: The Government Is On the Warpath ([link removed])

A State of Martial Law: America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy ([link removed])

FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them ([link removed])

Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution ([link removed])

Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Supreme Court Paves the Way for the Government to Circumvent Double Jeopardy Clause ([link removed])

Unanimous Supreme Court Sides With Postal Worker Requesting Sundays Off ([link removed])

Victory: Supreme Court Reins in the Government's Power to Punish Speech ([link removed])

Sounding Alarm Over Thought Crime Programs, Rutherford Institute Warns College Against Tracking Religious, Political Ideologies ([link removed])

Rutherford Institute Asks Court to Hold Government Accountable for Violating Citizens’ First Amendment Right to Political Expression ([link removed])

Supreme Court Refuses to Rein In the IRS, Allows Agency to Carry Out Secret, Warrantless Searches of Innocent Taxpayers’ Bank Accounts ([link removed])
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** IN THE COURTS
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Biden Likely Violated First Amendment During Covid-19 Pandemic, Federal Judge Says ([link removed])

9th Circuit Court Orders Cities and Towns Cannot Force Homeless People Off the Street ([link removed])

Ninth Circuit Guts Oregon Recording Law Requiring Consent to Record Public Conversations ([link removed])

Arkansas Federal Judge Blocks First Ban on Gender-Affirming Care ([link removed])

Supreme Court Clarifies When Online Harassment Can Be Prosecuted ([link removed])

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Alabama County Bail System ([link removed])

US Supreme Court Curbs States’ Property Tax ‘Windfall’ ([link removed])

Ninth Circuit Says A Horn Honk Isn’t Protected Political Expression Even When That’s The Honk’s Entire Point ([link removed])

First Amendment Challenge to Discipline of 8th-Grader for "Racially Insensitive" Instagram Post Can Go Forward ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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First, They Spied on Protesters. Then Churches. You’re Next ([link removed])

A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best ([link removed])

Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids ([link removed])

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** VODCAST: ON TARGET
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Impeach the Deep State for Conspiring Against the Constitution ([link removed])


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** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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Chicago Police Raided at Least 21 Wrong Houses ([link removed])


** OVERCRIMINALIZATION
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Zoning Police Criminalize Kindness in Oregon ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users ([link removed])

FBI’s Iris Biometrics Repository Reaches 2.5 Million With Tech From Iris ID ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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Delaware State Police Purchase of Facial Recognition Software Prompts Some Calls for Oversight ([link removed])

Amazon, Starbucks Face Wa Class-Action Lawsuit Over Customer Data ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH
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YouTubers Film, Insult Public Workers in Towns Across Mass. For Self-Declared ‘First Amendment Audits’ ([link removed])

At UChicago, a Debate Over Free Speech and Cyberbullying ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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Robots Take Questions at Geneva Press Conference, Say They Could Be Better Leaders Than Humans ([link removed])


** ECONOMY
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States Weigh Charging by the Mile as Fuel Taxes Plummet ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Some States Are Restricting Abortion. Others Are Spending Millions to Fund It ([link removed])

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