On September 9th, the city manager of Springfield, Ohio told one of Vance’s staffers that there was no truth to rumors of Haitian migrants eating pets in the city, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Vance spread the lie anyway — and Trump repeated it on the presidential debate stage. The Journal’s report backs up what Vance himself has already admitted: if he has to “create stories” to demonize migrants, then he will.
Judge Sri Srinivasan brought up the Supreme Court’s decisions in NetChoice and another case, Murthy v. Missouri, while questioning DOJ attorney Daniel Tenny.
“Under Netchoice, if we were talking about a US company, that’s heartland First Amendment-protected curation,” Srinivasan said. “So everything on under the government’s perspective turns on the fact that ByteDance is subject to Chinese control.”
Andrew Pincus, the attorney representing TikTok and ByteDance in an appeals court hearing today, didn’t outright mention the DOJ’s attempt to introduce classified evidence. But he did suggest there’s no public rationale for the potential ban.
“We don’t really know what was determined here, because this was Congress enacting statute that has no findings, that doesn’t say why Congress did what it did.”
Trump will roll out “World Liberty Financial” on X Spaces, at 8pm ET on September 16th.
The former president announced the project last month, providing virtually no details about what it actually is. We’ll find out next week — assuming the stream doesn’t crash like Trump’s interview with Elon Musk.
