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The Supreme Court could create a loophole in the First Amendment’s protections from government censorship.

On January 9th, 2024, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ filed its opening brief on behalf of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in National Rifle Association v. Vullo, a key First Amendment case before the Supreme Court this term. The brief argues that a New York state regulator’s attempts to blacklist a nonprofit advocacy group and deny it access to financial services because of its controversial viewpoint violated the First Amendment. This is a critically important First Amendment fight: if government officials can pressure the businesses they regulate to blacklist the NRA in New York, then officials in other states can punish other advocacy organizations in the same way–including the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ itself.