Protesting got way harder in Texas because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision

Due to the action — or, more accurately, the inaction — of the U.S. Supreme Court, organizers of mass protests in Texas and two other states now could be on the hook financially for any criminal act committed by an attendee. On Monday, the high court opted not to hear the case of Mckesson v. Doe, leaving in place a 2019 decision by the notoriously conservative New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that protest organizers can be held financially responsible for attendees' behavior in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The case stems from an incident at a 2016 protest organized by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. During that protest, which was held outside a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police station, an attendee threw a rock that injured an officer.