TEXAS LEGISLATURE

Journalists fear Texas Legislature could weaken law designed to protect free speech

News publications and First Amendment advocates are fighting a bill to revise a state law meant to prevent litigants from weaponizing the legal system to punish people for speech they don’t like.

By Matthew Watkins, The Texas Tribune
Posted 4/26/23

Journalists and free speech advocates are raising alarms about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that they worry would make news organizations and regular Texans more susceptible to …

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