New York Leans on Insurance Companies to Hurt the NRA

Recent government efforts to control speech go beyond social media postings to include banking and, most recently, insurance. On Nov. 3, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in which the National Rifle Association (NRA) is suing Maria Vullo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), which she formerly led. The NRA charges that New York regulators pressured insurance companies to cancel policies for the gun rights advocacy group, effectively threatening its ability to operate. The lawsuit claims that this is a violation of free speech rights as much as an effort at gun control. “It’s really frightening to think about a society where if the government doesn’t like your speech they can cancel your ability to do business,” Daniel Ortner, an attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), told The Epoch Times....