Can Texas and Florida Ban Viewpoint Discrimination on Social Media Platforms?

Run time: 1 hour

Alex Abdo and Larry Lessig discuss the oral arguments in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, which involved challenges to attempts by Texas and Florida to prevent social media sites from banning viewpoint discrimination. Listen now

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Is a Bump Stock a “Machinegun?” The U.S. Supreme Court Takes up the Question

by Marcia Coyle | Read time: 6 minutes

“After the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas strip—the worst in American history—many Americans learned the phrase ‘bump stock’ for the first time. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a federal rule defining bump stocks as machine guns prohibited by federal law. ...” Read more

A Brief History of Presidential Primaries

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 5 minutes

“On Tuesday, March 5, voters in 15 states will play a major role in selecting the two major party candidates in this year’s presidential election. The Super Tuesday primaries represent an evolution from a system that once relied on congressional caucuses and nomination conventions to choose candidates. ...” Read more

Black Women, Representation, and the Constitution

With the passage of the 15th and 19th Amendments more than 100 years ago, African American women’s suffrage became part of the Constitution. Yet the history of the struggle for Black women’s voting rights is still developing today.  

As we transition from Black History Month to Women’s History Month, watch this America’s Town Hall program from November 2021 to hear scholars Nadia Brown, Bettye Collier-Thomas, and Martha Jones discuss the history of Black women in America’s representative democracy. Watch now

First Amendment

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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