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Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works in Austin, opposes the ban on bump stock sales. “During the Trump administration, the bump stock ban cropped up as a rather glaring example of unlawful administrative power,” Philip Hamburger, a founder of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said in an email. Image A bump stock attaches to a semiautomatic rifle and enables it to fire at a much higher rate. In response, the Justice Department promised to review the legality of bump stocks, but A.T.F. Eventually, the full court agreed with Mr. Cargill by vote of 13 to 3, split along ideological lines.

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☆ Biden’s Social-Media Censorship Harms Us All
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Philip Hamburger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Despite efforts to silence him, 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended free speech and the First Amendment at a hearing into federal government censorship. Images: Bloomberg News/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe Supreme Court will decide as early as Wednesday whether to stay the lower courts’ injunction against the administration’s social-media censorship in Missouri v. Biden. One of the solicitor general’s arguments in the government’s defense is that the well-documented injuries to the plaintiffs, who were direct targets of the censorship, don’t justify a broad injunction that “covers the government’s communications with all social-media platforms . regarding all posts by any person . on all topics” (emphasis in original).

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Mark Kelly, Biden Organizations: Bloomberg Locations: Missouri

☆ Is Social-Media Censorship a Crime?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Philip Hamburger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Amid growing revelations about government involvement in social-media censorship, it’s no longer enough to talk simply about tech censorship. The problem should be understood as gov-tech censorship. The Biden White House has threatened tech companies and federal agencies have pressed them to censor disfavored opinions and users. Will there be legal consequences for government officials, for the companies, or for their personnel who cooperate in the gov-tech censorship of dissent on Covid-19, election irregularities or other matters? Cooperation between government officials and private parties to suppress speech could be considered a criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights.

☆ America Needs a New Civil Rights Act
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Philip Hamburger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It is time for a new civil-rights act that addresses the dangers of our time, not merely those of the 1960s. The threat again comes from discrimination, but now by the federal government as well as states and private organizations. Most worrisome is federal and state encouragement for private entities to discriminate against Americans with dissenting views. Also significant is discrimination that bars Americans from participating in services ordinarily open to the public.

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