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Justice Jackson Complains First Amendment Is ‘Hamstringing’ Feds’ Censorship Efforts
The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 03/18/2024 11:55:44 AM PDT by packagingguy

Free speech is on trial at the Supreme Court, but Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is no fan of the First Amendment. The Constitution, you see, limits the government. But leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution.

During Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly known as Biden v. Missouri, Jackson claimed to oppose any ruling in favor of Americans’ constitutional right to free speech if it limited the government’s ability to censor that speech via Big Tech.

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.

Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in the federal government’s unconstitutional censorship pressure campaign because “some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country” that goes far beyond simply posting its own speech or engaging in constitutional means of securing citizens from violence.

“You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”

Aguiñaga clarified that he wasn’t arguing for a complete ban on all interaction between the government and social media companies, but for that relationship to stay within constitutional bounds.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Missouri
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To: kiryandil

Brown proves that John Adams nailed it:

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

This is why attempts to mimic the US Constitution in third world countries always fail.


21 posted on 03/18/2024 12:13:39 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: packagingguy

Free speech is on trial at the Supreme Court, but Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is no fan of the First Amendment. The Constitution, you see, limits the government. But leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution.

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When you have a Supreme Court Justice with the first name: “Kentanji” you know your “law system” is a joke.

Kentanji, Fani, Letitia.......Hmmm.....I’m sensing a pattern.... Nah, must be my imagination.(sarcasm)


22 posted on 03/18/2024 12:13:45 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: packagingguy
Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in the federal government’s

At least the Federalist didn't say "raining in".

23 posted on 03/18/2024 12:14:47 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: packagingguy

“...encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,...”

And therein lies the rub. She’s suggesting that the “government” is and should be the sole arbiter of what be deemed “harmful information” rather than it’s citizens.

That my friends is the bedrock of a communist autocracy.


24 posted on 03/18/2024 12:17:42 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: packagingguy

Jumanji...


25 posted on 03/18/2024 12:17:54 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: packagingguy
"In a different exchange, Jackson claimed that a “once-in-a-lifetime pandemic” or any other such declarations of emergency should allow government to escape its constitutional limits. Declarations of emergency are historically common as a means of government power grabs."

Key point in the article. Jackson is using the "just the tip" argument horny teenage boys use in a heated makeout session in the car's back seat.

Now imagine that argument expanded to that WHO treaty-not-a-treaty monstrosity being considered. Everything will suddenly be an "emergency".

Its going to get to a point where people say the equivalent of Wyatt Earp in "Tombstone": "I don’t think I’ll let you arrest us today, Behan."

26 posted on 03/18/2024 12:19:38 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Chode

Her opinion is sedition, pure and simple.


27 posted on 03/18/2024 12:21:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: packagingguy
your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods

Indeed.

That's the idea, Mizz Justice Brown Jackson. The Constitution in general defines, and strictly limits, the powers of government. The White Men who wrote it were a lot smarter than you.

28 posted on 03/18/2024 12:23:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“Hamstringing” is violent rhetoric!
It refers to the action of a competitor cutting the hamstring muscle of other competitors in order to win.”
kunta kinte was ham-strung, I saw it on Roots.
That woman is RACIST!!


29 posted on 03/18/2024 12:24:18 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: packagingguy
Associated Press today headlined an article today on "New Free Speech Standards".

Really.

30 posted on 03/18/2024 12:24:45 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: packagingguy

trl


31 posted on 03/18/2024 12:25:00 PM PDT by The Westerner ("Communists no longer must hide the plan to destroy American Capitalism," says BHO)
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To: unclebankster

Those I have known with those names, and LaShawn, Deontay, etc- I just call them the generic Scrabble. It is surprising how little objection I get, maybe they are unfamiliar with the word game. It occurred to me once that these names came from tossing out a mess of Scrabble tiles then lining them up and that’s a name.


32 posted on 03/18/2024 12:25:31 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Tm)
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To: cgbg
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

That is why any effort to Make America Great Again without an even greater effort to Make Americans Good Again is doomed to failure.

33 posted on 03/18/2024 12:26:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jim Noble

100%


34 posted on 03/18/2024 12:26:54 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: packagingguy

The government, then, is always right, and can never be challenged. Wish I could say it’s been nice knowing the government.


35 posted on 03/18/2024 12:26:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: packagingguy

Lord, have mercy on us!


36 posted on 03/18/2024 12:26:58 PM PDT by lonestar (Texan for Trump. )
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To: packagingguy
She stated if there was a trend all over social media of kids jumping off bridges and dying, what's the harm in government asking sites to remove the posts to save lives.

All the women on the court seemed to favor the government during arguments I heard.

37 posted on 03/18/2024 12:28:48 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: All

And that dang old Second Amendment is unfairly hamstring the government from turning us all into complete and abject slaves


38 posted on 03/18/2024 12:29:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: blackdog

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-biden-administration-social-media-132df16a8b086cd7ed72954f3b4c2c04

I guess three letter agencies will have to promulgate their new “standards”.


39 posted on 03/18/2024 12:29:57 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Thunder90
The Constitution is slowly dripping away, one protection after another.
Sad day when the sole job of a SUSC justice is to protect the Constitution doesn't believe in the Constitution.
40 posted on 03/18/2024 12:30:06 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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