The case centers on a state official’s attempt to pressure banks and insurance companies to stop doing business with the gun-rights organization.
The decision reinstated a lawsuit the NRA filed in 2018 against New York state’s top financial services regulator, Maria Vullo. | Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty ImagesThe National Rifle Association scored a major victory at the Supreme Court Thursday, as the justices unanimously ruled that appeals judges were too quick to dismiss the NRA’s claims that New York officials violated its First Amendment rights by targeting its insurance business.
“Vullo was free to criticize the NRA and pursue the conceded violations of New York insurance law,” wrote Sotomayor, the most senior liberal justice and an appointee of President Barack Obama. “She could not wield her power, however, to threaten enforcement actions against regulated entities in order to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion advocacy.
Two justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch, filed concurring opinions in the NRA case. Jackson’s focused on legal nuances that could be critical to the outcome of the case about alleged government coercion of the social media firms.
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