Elizabeth Warren may face consequences for practicing censorship

American Thinker ^ | 28 Jan, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

Elizabeth Warren, a mediocre law professor who parlayed a fake Native American identity into a gig at Harvard and a seat in the United States Senate, thought that, once in government, she’d try her hand at censorship. When Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins wrote a book about COVID with which Warren disagreed, she used her position as a Senator to try to get Amazon to censor the book. Although Chelsea Green Publishing filed suit in November, people are finally becoming aware of the suit.

I’m always amazed when someone who ought to know the law doesn’t—or feels entitled to ignore it. As a lawyer and a law professor, one would expect Warren to be familiar with the First Amendment. That’s the one that says that “Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech.” As government has grown, that principle has been extended to the federal government as a whole, whether it’s an executive agency, Congress, or a politician acting under the color of his or her role in the government. (And of course, to state governments via the Fourteenth Amendment.)

Nevertheless, on September 7, 2021, writing in her capacity as a United States Senator, on official Senate letterhead, Warren sent a very long letter to Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, expressing her concern that Amazon itself was publishing misinformation by allowing Mercola’s and Cummins’s book, The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal, to appear on its bestseller list and daring to give it a favorable ranking. After waffling on for pages several pages, and mendaciously claiming the book was “potentially unlawful,” Warren “asked” Amazon to modify the algorithms to destroy the book’s ranking.

[MtnClimber]

The left thinks they are above the law. In the government style they wish for they would be above the law. They just think they are there already.

[FreedBird]

Warren and Biden have a lot in common when they exaggerate the truth. When a person tells a lie over and over, they sometime believe their own lies.

[T.B. Yoits]

Does the U.S. government have contracts with Amazon? Yes

Is Senator Liawatha Warren a member of the U.S. government? Yes

Does Amazon sell Senator Warren's own books? Yes

Did Senator Warren, a member of the U.S. government, direct Amazon, a contractor for the U.S. government, to stop selling a third party's book? (on official government letterhead no less) Yes

Senator Liawatha Warren committed a crime, violated the Senate's ethics rules, and also committed a tort against the book author.

[AndyJackson]

Violation of civil rights under color of law.

[EC Washington]

Squaw only follows rule of her tribe.

[Gay State Conservative]

Princess Liawatha...as Howie Carr,a *great* Boston talk show host calls her...knows she has her Senate seat as long as she wants it. Massachusetts is *that* depraved.Given that fact she says whatever comes to her Maoist mind and knows that there’ll be no consequences.

[JoJo354]

What is amazing to me is that these politicians think just because they are in the Senate or House in DC that they have the right to go to private businesses and tell them what to do. And even more amazing is that a lot of these businesses will comply. No law enacted or legal EO, just by the politicians personal feelings and demands.