The Supreme Court handed down a big ruling, which was unanimous—the state of New York violated the First Amendment rights of the National Rifle Association.
This from therightscoop.com.
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday unanimously ruled for the National Rifle Association in a First Amendment dispute with the New York Department of Financial Services.
The decision allows an NRA lawsuit to move forward in state court with First Amendment claims against the agency and its former superintendent Maria Vullo.
The Supreme Court decision held that when a government entity invokes legal sanctions and other means of coercion to ‘achieve the suppression’ of disfavored speech it violates the First Amendment.
