Trump filing class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google – live
Ex-president claims he has been ‘censored’ by tech companiesBiden condemns ‘heinous’ assassination of Haiti president Jovenel MoïsePresident meets with US officials on response to ransomware attackHackers last week infiltrated Florida-based tech firm 5.49pm BST Over in the slightly less dramatic world of the business of governing, Joe Biden will today visit a community college in Illinois, to tout his plan to pay for “human infrastructure” investment by raising taxes on corporations.Air Force One has touched down at O’Hare, and Biden is on his way to McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, near Chicago. 5.32pm BST A succinct reaction to Trump’s claims about the first amendment from noted law professor Steve Vladeck, on one of the social media platforms from which Trump is banned and which he is now suing for allegedly violating his first amendment rights:The First Amendment does *not* apply to non-governmental actors. Full stop. https://t.co/FAmXafuOZZDon???t be taken in by the “what if it does” retort. The “state action” doctrine is about as firmly embedded a principle of constitutional law as there is. To overturn it would have incredibly broad consequences — many of which the current Supreme Court would be loath to embrace. Continue reading…
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