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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Sale of Confederate Flags, Despite Knowing This Has First Amendment Problems
Reason ^ | December 16, 2020 | Robby Soave

Posted on 12/16/2020 11:51:05 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed legislation on Tuesday prohibiting the sale of Confederate flags on public property, including at state and local fairs.

Cuomo was well aware that such legislation is likely to fail a First Amendment test, but this did not deter him.

"This country faces a pervasive, growing attitude of intolerance and hate—what I have referred to in the body politic as an American cancer," he wrote. "By limiting the display and sale of the confederate flag, Nazi swastika and other symbols of hatred from being displayed or sold on state property, including the state fairgrounds, this will help safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-installing effects of these abhorrent symbols."

Cuomo noted that "certain technical changes are necessary" to make sure the ban is compliant with the First Amendment, which protects free expression—including the expression of hateful ideas.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; aclumia; cancelculture; confederateflag; cuomo; flaglaws; freedomofspeech; waronfreedomofspeech
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1 posted on 12/16/2020 11:51:05 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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Next it will be MAGA hats and any other damn thing this bag of feces determines as “offensive”.


2 posted on 12/16/2020 11:53:35 AM PST by Londo Molari
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To: Ciaphas Cain

It’s good to be king.


3 posted on 12/16/2020 11:53:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Mighty intolerant of him.


4 posted on 12/16/2020 11:54:05 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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He’d be better off saying he’s banning anything related to America and it’s history.


5 posted on 12/16/2020 11:54:07 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Of course no ban on Communist or ISIS related stuff I assume.


6 posted on 12/16/2020 11:55:12 AM PST by xp38
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“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Sale of Confederate Flags, Despite Knowing This Has First Amendment Problems”

Cuomo is just another anti-Constitution Democrat Dictator wannabe.


7 posted on 12/16/2020 11:55:35 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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what I have referred to in the body politic as an American cancer
You and your ilk are the cancer, you arrogant jerk.
8 posted on 12/16/2020 11:56:29 AM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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His woman kicked him out.

The Citizens of NYS should follow.


9 posted on 12/16/2020 11:56:31 AM PST by Paladin2
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Probably the biggest flaw in the US Constitution is that officials knowingly violating it face no penalty for doing so. They should be held personally liable with severe court sanction available when they violate our rights.

This is such a crystal clear violation of the First Amendment that a first-year law student would laugh. Zero chance this stands. Only remaining question is what happens to Cuomo and the legislators who passed it? Answer, of course, is nothing. Maybe the plaintiffs get their attorney fees paid for by the taxpayers.

Personally, I think passing garbage like this should - at LEAST - get you declared ineligible for public office for life. Throw in some personal sanctions like prison time and/or huge fines for knowingly passing laws that violate constitutional rights and watch how cautiously these people move in the future.


10 posted on 12/16/2020 11:57:39 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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“...including the expression of hateful ideas...”

Oh, like you deliberately did to those nursing home elderly? Those hateful ideas, you murdering POS.
In a sane world, this mass murdering thug would already have been arrested, tried and facing a death penalty sentence for mass murder and crimes against humanity.


11 posted on 12/16/2020 11:58:02 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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Democrats seem to always be a war and censoring their own history.

Be it racism or socialism. They denounce the “Hate” while proposing or mandating the same polices as those the profess to despise.

Nazi Policies - Good
Nazi Flags and symbols - Bad


12 posted on 12/16/2020 11:58:32 AM PST by CrappieLuck
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Time to file suit to ban the sale and flying of a New York State flag. It's a symbol of oppression to citizens of New York and other states.

It's also a shroud of death to those innocent children whose legalized death he signed into law as well as those elderly residents he, Nursing Home Killer (NHK) Cuomo, sent to their death.

13 posted on 12/16/2020 11:59:01 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Sales of Confederate flags in NY going way up in 3..2..1

Unintended consequences. Just like the lockdowns.

They never effing learn.


14 posted on 12/16/2020 11:59:04 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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More is yet to come.........


15 posted on 12/16/2020 11:59:24 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Next, he will ban wearing a MAGA hat outside in the daytime.


16 posted on 12/16/2020 11:59:39 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Our 2nd Civil War started, Friday, December 11th, 2020! As we can not have real elections anymore)
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These dictators have gotten out of control. He has ZERO authority to ban anything for sale like this.


17 posted on 12/16/2020 11:59:48 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Look-at-me-look-at-me-look-at-ME!!!


18 posted on 12/16/2020 12:00:11 PM PST by BlackAdderess (The more ways you figure out to divide people the less they are going to be able to accomplish)
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Il Douche


19 posted on 12/16/2020 12:00:16 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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“This country faces a pervasive, growing attitude of intolerance and hate—what I have referred to in the body politic as an American cancer.”

Yeah Governor CuoMOB that intolerance and hate comes out of your piehole every time you open it, and from one political organization called the Democrat Party, of which you are a part of. This guy truly is a big time POS!


20 posted on 12/16/2020 12:00:52 PM PST by dowcaet
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