…A Facebook employee wrote an email later that day asking Biden administration COVID-19 czar Andrew Slavitt for “any messaging” that the White House might want the company to promote, looping in White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty and Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement for the COVID-19 Response Team Courtney Rowe in a…

…The legal team behind the federal regulation challenge, Michael Cargill v. Merrick B. Garland, was New Civil Liberties Alliance…

…Will the Supreme Court take up that issue? The ATF declined to comment on Friday’s ruling, but Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who won the 5th Circuit appeal for bump stock user Michael Cargill, said his side wouldn’t shy away from Supreme Court review, including on the question of whether Chevron applies…

…The plaintiff in the case, Texas gun shop owner and firearms instructor Michael Cargill, had surrendered two nonmechanical bump stocks after the new rule banned them. He was represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights organization…

…”The resulting circuit split should bring this decision to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention promptly and supply a suitable vehicle for deciding this issue once and for all,” said Mark Chenoweth, the president of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative group that litigated the case…

…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Cargill in the case, said in a statement Friday that it is pleased that a circuit court has recognized “that Congress must be the one to pass any bump stock ban.” “The resulting circuit split should bring this decision to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention promptly and supply…