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MAY 22, 2022

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech 

You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back 

When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Texas School District Restricts First Amendment Activity, Bans Teachers and Employees From Publicly Criticizing School Policies 

Boston Violated First Amendment by Prohibiting Christian Flag, Rules Unanimous Supreme Court 

Supreme Court Allows Police to Use Warrantless Real-Time Cell Phone Data to Sweep Americans Into Digital Data Dragnet 
HELP US MAKE THE GOVERNMENT PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE CONSTITUTION: $250,000 MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN ENDS ON 6/30

IN THE COURTS

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Disorderly Conduct Doesn’t Disqualify a Person From Holding a Concealed Weapons License 

NJ Appeals Court: There Is an Expectation of Privacy Even When Possessions Are in a Location Owned by Someone Else 

Tennessee Supreme Court: State’s Education Savings Account Pilot Program Is Constitutional 

Habeas Rights for Elephants at Heart of Bronx Zoo Case 

Federal Court Blocks Law Restricting Transgender Minors From Using Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapies 

Ninth Circuit: Lower Court’s COVID-19 Protocols Violated Sixth Amendment Right to a Public Trial 

Supreme Court: Government Has Carte Blanche To Deport Immigrants Based on Its Own Factual Errors 

California Law Requiring Female Board Directors Deemed Unconstitutional 

Appeals Court Lifts Injunction Against Iowa Ban on School Mask Mandates 

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Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech 

Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back 

When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions 

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Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens

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JUSTICE SYSTEM

Feds Sue Virginia Dog Breeding Facility, Seize More Than 140 Dogs After Extensive Animal Welfare Violations

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Judge Won’t Release Bodycam of Deadly Police Dog Attack 

Police Aren’t Happy With Facial Recognition Surveillance Bans 

Cops Forced to Return Over $1 Million for Organizing Armored Car Heists, Robbing Innocent People 

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat 

AMERICA AT WAR

Hate Crime Initiatives Launched in US After Back-to-Back Racist Shootings

BEHIND BARS

Illinois Counties Ask Seventh Circuit To Lift Ban on Immigration Detention Contracts 

Former Ohio Prisons Chief Top Contender To Run US Prisons 
HELP US CONTINUE TO SOUND THE ALARM: $250,000 MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN ENDS ON 6/30

NATIONAL SECURITY

The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act Will Do Nothing to Stop Terrorism and Everything to Grow the Police State 

Disinformation Governance Board ‘Paused’ After Just 3 Weeks

CORRUPTION

Southern Baptist Leaders Covered Up Sex Abuse, Explosive Report Says

WAR ON KIDS, FAMILY

The Prosecution of Idaho Mom Sara Brady

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

With Roe in Doubt, Some Fear Tech Surveillance of Pregnancy 

Investigation Reveals Ice Has Data on Most of the American Public 

Threats to Privacy in the Age of Big Tech  

NY Gov. To Create New Police Unit To Increase Social Media Monitoring 

Human Rights Group Oppose Zoom’s Planned A.I. Tech 

Driverless Cars Record Everything, Making Them Moving Surveillance Machines 

FREE SPEECH

Florida Signs Bill Into Law Banning Protests Outside Homes 

Roe Dissent Must Be Protected, Even Outside Homes of Justices 

Texas Church Evicted After Pastor Criticized LGBTQ Mural In City Meeting  

Eckerd College Government Refuses To Recognize Republican Group Unless It Censors Its Social Media Posts

TECHNOLOGY

Technology Will Transform War

EDUCATION

Carroll ISD Officials Warned About Non-Disparagement Agreement

ECONOMY

Why the Baby-Formula Market Is a Mess: Low Competition, High Regulation 

Social Security Anti-Fraud Program Ensnared Poor With Massive Fines

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Biden Says ‘Everybody’ Should Be Concerned About Spread of Monkeypox 

The Next Big Scare? USA and Europe Buy up Millions of Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine 

Belgium Becomes First Country To Introduce Compulsory Monkeypox Quarantine

POLITICS

Archbishop Bars Pelosi From Communion Over Her Support for Abortion Rights 

Circuit Court of Appeals To Consider the Argument That Florida’s Vaccine Passport Ban Is Somehow a Free Speech Violation

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