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To: Jacquerie
Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington DC, the former Stanford professor warned that America’s constitutional protections for free expression dissolved during the Covid pandemic and remain unenforceable even today. “The First Amendment still doesn’t apply in practice,” he said. “Free speech rights exist right now only because the administration has chosen to allow them, not because the First Amendment is protecting us.”

So, he's saying that we don't need amendments anymore, and that all it takes to repeal parts of the Constitution is for someone to violate it and that makes it “dead letter” from that point forward?

-PJ

14 posted on 09/06/2025 3:43:19 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
So, he's saying that we don't need amendments anymore, and that all it takes to repeal parts of the Constitution is for someone to violate it and that makes it “dead letter” from that point forward?

It seems to me he was clear - “Right now, free speech in America depends on who is in power,”

I.e., elections have consequences, see the most recent two Dem WH admins and some of the current Dem governors.

16 posted on 09/06/2025 3:58:02 PM PDT by frog in a pot
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