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May 2023
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Disney May Have Upper Hand in Fight With...

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Leslie Kendrick, Director of the Center for the First Amendment at the University of Virginia Law School, discusses Disney suing Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, claiming DeSantis retaliated against Disney for exercising its free speech rights. Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses how the North Carolina Supreme Court reversing itself, could scuttle a major US Supreme Court elections case. June Grasso hosts.

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