Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Finally, the city council of Castle Hills, Texas, is doing the right thing by Sylvia Gonzalez, accepting a settlement to resolve years of litigation against the city for violating her First Amendment rights. In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, agreeing that courts may properly consider evidence that an arrest is retaliatory. According to Gonzalez’s lawsuit, in 2019 city leaders had lashed out against the councilwoman for her support of a nonbinding petition to remove a city manager. The city’s weapon? A rarely used law that it wielded against her for ‘briefly and inadvertently having the petition among her papers’ during a heated council meeting; she allegedly tried to ‘steal’ her own petition.” (11/05/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/05/vindictiveness-vs-the-1st-amendment/