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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-FIRST AMENDMENT-SPEECH-IMMIGRATION VIOLATION-OVERBREADTH

United States v. Hansen, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2638 (S. Ct. June 23, 2023) (Barrett, J.) A federal law prohibits “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” illegal immigration. 8 U. S. C. §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv). After concluding that this statute criminalizes immigration advocacy and other protected speech, the Ninth Circuit held it unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. That was error. […]