I, Ezra Spilke, counsel for petitioner and a member of the Bar of this Court,

declare under penalty of perjury that, on November 18, 2024, I have served the enclosed Motion for Leave to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and corrected Petition for a Writ of Certiorari by depositing an envelope containing the above documents in the United States mail with first-class postage prepaid and properly addressed to the following counsel: Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 5614 Washington, D. C. 20530–0001

Executed on November 18, 2024

An overbreadth claim is a special kind of facial challenge that allows litigants to whom a statute can be lawfully applied to nonetheless seek invalidation of the law because it “prohibits a substantial amount of protected speech relative to ...

... 6–7 (explaining that Defendant “has not identified a single case in which a court held that taking retaliatory action against whistleblowers [in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1513] is constitutionally protected, and the government is aware of none”).) ...

) Another section of Defendant's brief cites to a litany of Supreme Court opinions that recite uncontested principles of First Amendment law, none of which pertain to the overbreadth doctrine.

Supreme Court of the United States

Pursuant to Title 18 United States Code Section 3006A(d)(6) and Rule 39 of this Court, Petitioner Tawanna Hilliard, requests leave to file the attached Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit without prepayment of fees or costs and to proceed in forma pauperis.

Petitioner was represented by counsel appointed pursuant to Title 18 United States Code Section 3006A(d)(6) in the district court and on appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Octobrer 31, 2024 Wilton, Conn.

Respectfully submitted,

I, Ezra Spilke, counsel for petitioner and a member of the Bar of this Court,

declare under penalty of perjury that, on October 31, 2024, I have served the enclosed Motion for Leave to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and Petition for a Writ of Certiorari by depositing an envelope containing the above documents in the United States mail with first-class postage prepaid and properly addressed to the following counsel: Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 5614 Washington, D. C. 20530–0001

The Government hereby waives its right to file a response to the petition in this case, unless requested to do so by the Court.

Supreme Court of the United States

Pursuant to Title 18 United States Code Section 3006A(d)(6) and Rule 39 of this Court, Petitioner Spyros Panos, requests leave to file the attached Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit without prepayment of fees or costs and to proceed in forma pauperis.

Petitioner was represented by counsel appointed pursuant to Title 18 United States Code Section 3006A(d)(6) in the district court and on appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

September 4, 2024 Wilton, Conn.

Respectfully submitted,

I, Ezra Spilke, counsel for petitioner and a member of the Bar of this Court,

declare under penalty of perjury that, on September 4, 2024, I have served the enclosed Motion for Leave to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and Petition for a Writ of Certiorari by depositing an envelope containing the above documents in the United States mail with first-class postage prepaid and properly addressed to the following counsel: Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 5614 Washington, D. C. 20530–0001

Executed on September 4, 2024

None of these allegations overcome the “strong presumption that counsel's representation was within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.” Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 104 (2011) (internal quotation marks ...