Sotomayor leads justices backing NRA in ‘viewpoint discrimination’ case over state pressured insurers’ severing of business ties after Parkland massacre

NRA, Sonia Sotomayor

The National Rifle Association of America logo (STRF/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 ); Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

The former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services appears to have gone too far in her efforts to get insurers to abandon business ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, massacre and a number of other mass shootings, the U.S. Supreme Court led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor unanimously ruled on Thursday.

In the opinion, Sotomayor explained that, contrary to the holding of that U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the NRA has “plausibly” alleged that Maria Vullo engaged in “viewpoint discrimination” and ran afoul of the First Amendment by using the power of her office to pressure insurers under her agency’s regulatory authority to cut ties with the Second Amendment group as punishment for the NRA’s speech.

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