The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Project Veritas’ First Amendment challenge to an Oregon law that restricts people’s ability to secretly record others, allowing the law to stand.

Project Veritas, a conservative group that films undercover videos to embarrass mainstream media and liberal organizations, contended that lower courts used too lenient a constitutional test in upholding the law.

As is typical, the justices refused to hear the group’s appeal in a brief order without explanation or noted dissents.

The announcement came on the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term, which is already filled with major battles over race, LGBTQ rights and President Trump’s second-term agenda. The justices considered Project Veritas’s petition at their opening, private conference last

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