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Today I am presenting at Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX conference on constitional law with @jadler1969, Don Kochan, @greggnunziata, Allen Rostron, and many others.
I've posted the audio of my remarks on the 2nd Amendment here: soundcloud.com/josh-blackman-…
Today is a rare three airport, two airline day: IAH-AUS, and AUS-HOU. I need to get back in time for class at 5:20. My record is six airports in 36 hours: joshblackman.com/blog/2012/11/0…
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1/ In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), #SCOTUS rejects the argument that Cong could prohibit segregation in places of public accommodation. Congress's powers under Section 5 of the 14th Am, the Court holds, can only remedy violations of the Constitution that are "state action"
2/ But what about Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce? I had always focused on the lead cases, in which theaters and other intrastate public accommodations were segregated. But there is another case I never focused on--until a student flagged it yesterday.
3/ One of the cases involved a woman traveling by train from Tennessee to Virginia.
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1/ Here is the text of @HawleyMO bill: hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/… Virtually all of the criticisms I've seen so far reflect news reports of the bill--not the actual bill.
2/ As a threshold matter, the bill only applies to "covered" entities with more than 30 million active users in the US, or 300 million users worldwide. I haven't done the math, but this bill would exclude the overwhelming majority of social media platforms.
3/ Here is the general gist: Large social media firms that benefit from Section 230 would now need to be certified by the FCC to maintain that safe harbor. The overwhelming majority of firms would still be protected by Section 230.
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1/ Running thread as I read through the 88 pages (!) of Gamble v. US. First, I'll start w/ J. Alito's majority opinion #SCOTUS
2/ Gamble considered a draft of the Double Jeopardy Clause that was rejected. Alito says this draft should "count for little" bc "The private intent behind a drafter’s rejection of one version of a text is shoddy evidence of the public meaning of an altogether different text"
3/ In other contexts, Justices have given great weight to rejected proposals. For, in Lee v. Weisman context, J. Souter focused at great length about earlier versions of the Establishment Clause that were rejected. scholar.google.com/scholar_case?c…
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