Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in Texas (apnews.com)
She was arrested in 2017 for publishing on Facebook to 'gain a benefit' (followers/likes). Two years later the criminal case was dropped, and she brought a suit against the city for violating her First and Fourth Amendment rights through a retaliatory arrest. Two years later the court ruled the police had qualified immunity, which decision was reversed a year later still ("If the First Amendment means anything, it surely means that a citizen journalist has the right to ask a public official a question, without fear of being imprisoned."). Then two years later still, in 2024, the full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision and reinstated qualified immunity for the officers, saying that the law's unconstitutionality wasn't obvious.
The Supreme Court heard the case and in 2025 they vacated the Appeals court ruling, but the Appeals court again dismissed her claim anyway. She appealed to the Supreme Court a second time but today they declined to hear it.