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An Act Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages, also known as Texas House Bill 20 (HB20), is a Texas anti-deplatforming law enacted on September 9, 2021.
On December 1, 2021, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the law. The court ruled that the law was unconstitutional because editorial discretion, including content moderation by Internet firms, is protected by the First Amendment. [12]
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals has put a controversial Texan law that allows users to sue social media companies back into effect. As Houston Public Media notes, Texas introduced HB 20 last ...
A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints ...
A federal judge in Austin, Texas, ordered the state government Thursday to suspend enforcement of a controversial law that allowed state law enforcement agents to arrest and detain people they ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state. These agencies employed 81,196 sworn peace officers, about 244 for each 100,000 residents.
The two judges who spoke during Wednesday's hour-long arguments split sharply over whether S.B. 4 improperly interferes with the federal government's enforcement of U.S. immigration law as the ...
El Paso law enforcement is stuck in the middle of the ongoing legal argument over SB 4, the controversial Texas state law authorizing local police to arrest and deport suspected undocumented ...