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Next month, the Supreme Court will consider whether to take up Villarreal v. Alaniz, a First Amendment case involving a Laredo, Texas, journalist who was arrested for asking questions. Although that is literally what happened to local crime vlogger Priscilla Villarreal in 2017, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, echoing an appeals court ruling against her, calls that description “clever but misleading” in a brief opposing her petition for Supreme Court review. “Priscilla Villarreal was supposedly arrested just for asking questions,” the brief says. In reality, Paxton argues, she was arrested f…

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