Well-intentioned law, but any injunction against letting someone (even a convicted murderer) speak is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
Nope, it isn’t. People are deprived of life, liberty, and property every day by due process. He isn’t entitled to unrestricted use of the First Amendment anymore than he is the Second, or the Fourth, ...
There is no write to have your speech covered or broadcast or otherwise made public. Prison officials do not have to provide access to have your speech heard by anyone.
Someone brought a case in the 90s that their rights were violated because the prison would not let the media in to talk to him. The inmate lost the case.
[ Well-intentioned law, but any injunction against letting someone (even a convicted murderer) speak is a clear violation of the First Amendment. ]
I didn’t know they had 2nd Amendment rights in prisons...
You know all those prisons shootings that happen becasue all the prisoners have guns and such...
The whole idea of prison is that YOU LOSE YOUR RIGHTS because you have deprived someone else of THEIR RIGHTS...
Mumia is still in Prison, ergo no 1st Amendment for him, except his appeals lawyer...
I would agree if he had served his sentence and was free. But not while he is still in prison. Heck, even my kids in high school give up some of their First Amendment rights (and their second, fourth and many others I imagine).
It's just a da** shame he wasn't executed. Makes me angry that in this state while technically we do have the death penalty, heinous murderers like Mumia are allowed to continue breathing.
Once those door slam shut you no longer get to prosper from the freedoms granted to free men. In fact I’ll go one further...the liberal spines claiming constitutional protection and due process to ILLEGAL ALIENS is also a farse. As far as I can read it they too are granted no constitutional protections as many liberal judges infamously do.
I agree with you. It’s a bad law that can easily be turned against people who offend Islam.