SCOTUS Decides 'No Free Speech For You!'

Witchfinder Sam Alito has let stand a ruling from the 5th Circuit that essentially ends mass protests in three southern states:

[T]he Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act.

The article dryly notes that this is personal:

For the past several years, the Fifth Circuit has engaged in a crusade against DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure within the Black Lives Matter movement who organized a protest near a Baton Rogue police station in 2016.

We now turn to the Pod Saves Whatevs newsletter because DeRay McKesson is one of their hosts:

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