Social Media, Gun Cases Set for February High Court Argument (1)

The US Supreme Court in February will hear challenges to a federal ban on bump stocks and disputes over social media censorship laws in Florida and Texas.

On the calendar for the month released Friday are back-to-back arguments Feb. 26 in cases challenging Republican-supported laws in Florida and Texas that essentially stop large social media platforms from censoring users based on their conservative viewpoints.

The Florida law at issue in Moody v. NetChoice LLC, requires platform to disclose how and when they censor speech and host some speech the platform might otherwise prefer not to. The Texas law at ...