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Court Threatens First Amendment Rights of Tennessee News Website After Publication of Nashville School Shooting Documents

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The editor-in-chief and publisher of the Tennessee Star was ordered to appear in court last week and threatened with charges of contempt after his news website reported on an anonymously leaked collection of documents authored by Nashville mass shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Michael Patrick Leahy was joined by his attorneys in court on Monday for a “show-cause hearing,” where the journalist was asked by Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles to demonstrate why his outlet’s reporting does not subject him to contempt proceedings and sanctions. On March 27, 2023, Hale (born…

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Banned Bookmobile Recap on the Road: Best Moments of Our Tour Through Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida

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Our Banned Bookmobile tour stop in Atlanta, Georgia. This July, MoveOn members and book lovers came out in droves to support our mission to give away banned books and fight back against book bans across the nation. Whether you joined us or rooted us on from afar, here’s a “Recap on the Road” of our first-ever Banned Bookmobile tour!   On our tour, we traveled across 10 states, 14 stops, and distributed thousands of books, bookmarks, T-shirts, and buttons for free. We stopped at local bookstores along the tour to…

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The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the Beginning

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The red-state drive to reverse the rights revolution of the past six decades continues to intensify, triggering confrontations involving every level of government. In rapid succession, Republican-controlled states are applying unprecedented tactics to shift social policy sharply to the right, not only within their borders but across the nation. Just last Thursday, the GOP-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two young Black Democratic representatives, and Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, on Saturday moved to nullify the verdict of a jury in liberal Travis County. In between, last Friday,…

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Taylor Swift breaks political silence, endorses Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper in Tennessee US Senate … – CNBC

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CNBC Taylor Swift breaks political silence, endorses Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper in Tennessee US Senate …CNBCSwift stunned the pop culture and political worlds Sunday night with a lengthy, impassioned Instagram post in which she endorsed Democrats Phil Bredesen and Rep. Jim Cooper in their Tennessee U.S. Senate and House races, respectively. "In the past I've …Taylor Swift breaks political silence to endorse Democrats in US midtermsThe Guardian Taylor Swift gets political, endorses Democrats in US midtermsFRANCE 24Taylor Swift breaks political silence in favour of DemocratsBBC NewsNBCNews.com –NME.com –Instagram –USA TODAYall 592 news…

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