The Onion Urges High Court To Grant Parodist’s Petition Over Qualified Immunity

(October 6, 2022, 4:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conveying its concern that “Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government,” The Onion filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting an Ohio man who was arrested for his creation of a Facebook page that parodied his local police department, encouraging the court to expand its traditional “hesitan[cy] to chill speech” to rule against “the prospect of chilling parody by imprisoning its practitioners.”...