Posted on 06/30/2018 12:43:54 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — On the final day of the Supreme Court term last week, Justice Elena Kagan sounded an alarm.
The court’s five conservative members, citing the First Amendment, had just dealt public unions a devastating blow. The day before, the same majority had used the First Amendment to reject a California law requiring religiously oriented “crisis pregnancy centers” to provide women with information about abortion.
Conservatives, said Justice Kagan, who is part of the court’s four-member liberal wing, were “weaponizing the First Amendment.”
The two decisions were the latest in a stunning run of victories for a conservative agenda that has increasingly been built on the foundation of free speech. Conservative groups, borrowing and building on arguments developed by liberals, have used the First Amendment to justify unlimited campaign spending, discrimination against gay couples and attacks on the regulation of tobacco, pharmaceuticals and guns.
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Elana Kagen is dumb as a toad. Anything that doesn’t fit the straightjacket of liberal speech is to be considered “weaponized”.
When is the last time a Democrat president nominated a “leaning” conservative?
Never.
So why does the Left / New York Times get their panties in a wad when a Republican gets to nominate a justice nominated by a previous Republican?
“Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful,” she wrote. “Legally, what was, toward the beginning of the 20th century, a shield for radicals, artists and activists, socialists and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed, has become a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers and corporations buying elections.”
What a load of PURE CRAP!!. Look at Hollywood. Look at ANTIFA. Look at restaurants throwing out people of the "wrong" persuasion. Typical bullshit. Accuse the other side of what your side is actually doing.
I like!
I can dream that after Kennedyis properly replaced, Kagan, Ginsberg and the Big Soto will all step down rather than have to remain as the ineffectual minority through the rest of their terms.
Note to the NYTimes: Well at least it’s an actual Constitutional amendment and not the Liberals so-called “right to privacy” from which they constructed the “right” to an abortion - neither one written in the Constitution.
I love it when the New York Times and other organizations that work in free speech and free press begin lecturing us about the evils of such things and tell us there should be limits on it.
Maybe we could get vegan restaurants to advertise for steakhouses since it doesn’t violate the First Amendment.
Uh, how about YJCMTSU?
Do I need to translate?
;^)
I have a pretty good idea. That one could get worn out.
I do love that one from Truman.
Creepy nonsense.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
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Nothing has changed with respect to the First Amendment - it was always a bulwark against oppression. What has changed is that the feminist Left has become the oppressor. No wonder they don't like it.
This NYT piece is Kaka.
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