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Alan Dershowitz Clowned for Calling Trump Lawsuit 'Important First Amendment Case'
TheWrap ^ | July 8, 2021 | Lindsey Ellefson

Posted on 07/08/2021 6:07:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I think Trump’s team is going to show proof that the government has been “adising” what to censor. That makes it Government censorship which is, indeed, unConstitutional.


21 posted on 07/08/2021 7:04:09 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe >-)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’m sure Alan would love to debate anyone who disagrees with him he only is the legal professor at a local community college called Harvard


22 posted on 07/08/2021 7:09:17 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The headline is silly. Alan Dershowitz is never clowned. For a so called journalist to say that Dershowitz is clowned is to say that journalist is ignorant.

You never want Alan as an enemy. Never.


23 posted on 07/08/2021 7:16:58 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Dershowitz is also the reason that Epstein skated from his original charges, and a regular at pedo island. Not the kind of guy I would want in my court.


24 posted on 07/08/2021 7:20:18 PM PDT by ready2brd
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To: Nomad577
My limited understanding is that the 1st amendment only applies ...

I don't know if you are right or wrong. What I do know is Alan Dershowitz is the smartest 1st amendment scholar and he is not afraid to go against political thought. I'l go with whatever he says.

25 posted on 07/08/2021 7:21:33 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BenLurkin

He made Barney Miller after his movie The President’s Analyst got in hot water with the FBI and CIA (discussed at the 3 minute mark and Barney Miller discussed at 3:21).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzMB3k45fLo


26 posted on 07/08/2021 7:22:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Bkmk


27 posted on 07/08/2021 7:37:12 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Florida Democratic Party of 1943 was a fine private organization.

Southern gentlemen and ladies worked hard to ensure that quality people were nominated to serve the people of Florida and the United States.

And there is no finer man than a Southern gentleman.

Just because some ignorant Yankees refused to do some serious thinking was no reason for a federal court to meddle in the affairs of a private organization.


28 posted on 07/08/2021 7:37:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ready2brd
Not the kind of guy I would want in my court.

That is your choice. Should I ever need a lawyer to appeal a lower court I'd want Dershowitz. There's nobody better.

29 posted on 07/08/2021 7:40:42 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Nateman

“How about if the Government is giving special favors to those companies that do its dirty work of censorship for it?”

That’s the key point in a nutshell.


30 posted on 07/08/2021 7:43:24 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ready2brd
Dershowitz is also the reason that Epstein skated from his original charge

Nope. The Judge and prosecutor are responsible for that.

31 posted on 07/08/2021 7:50:04 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Usually beclowned is reflexive—something you do to yourself.


32 posted on 07/08/2021 7:59:32 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: WinstonSmith1984
The DOJ, FBI, CIA, and IRS are corrupt and until these institutions are restored we are F......d.
As are the news media, and that includes Fox and everyone still working there since the election fraud was totally accepted as legit.
33 posted on 07/08/2021 8:28:00 PM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Wow.

Dersh told Lindell the My Pillow suit against Dominion was the most important 1st Amendment case of all time.

Easy come, easy go...

34 posted on 07/08/2021 8:51:15 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: Nomad577
My limited understanding is that the 1st amendment only applies to the GOVERNMENT not being able to control what you say, and since these are private companies it doesn't apply to them etc.

Try this:

You are running against me for public office. Two weeks before the election, I make up a scandal about you, phone it in to the newspaper, they print it, you lose. A week later my lie is exposed. You can sue me for slander, you can sue the newspaper for libel, but you can't sue the phone company for anything.

Facebook and company were kind of new thing in the world, and for a while, the government let them dance on the top of the fence. At the beginning they only censored things that pretty clearly did not belong, but over time they began to abuse that trust.

Which brings us to where we are today. They are just going to have to come down as either a common carrier, with all the pluses and minuses that go with it, or be a content provider, with all the pluses and minuses that go with that.

As far as all the nuanced 'legal logic' (ha ha), that's just the mechanics of getting done whatever they decide they want to get done.

We'll see.

35 posted on 07/08/2021 8:54:16 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Constitutional law professor Miranda Yaver.

36 posted on 07/09/2021 12:38:52 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

bookmark


37 posted on 07/09/2021 12:42:34 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Democrat Ted Lieu Apologizes After Accusations of Using ‘Anti-Semitic Trope’ For US Ambassador to Israel

https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-ted-lieu-apologizes-antisemitic-trope-us-ambassador-israel-1454764


38 posted on 07/09/2021 12:46:11 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Diogenesis
Singing from the same choir sheet:

"It's not a First Amendment case. And Dershowitz, delusional though he is, knows this," said Constitutional law professor Miranda Yaver.

Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu said, "Tomorrow I'm suing Fox News for not having me on every day, and the NY Times for not publishing my OpEds, because First Amendment. Awww, just kidding. Unlike delusional Dershowitz, I read the First Amendment and it does not apply to private sector companies."

39 posted on 07/09/2021 12:50:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Rep. Ted Lieu is a Soros operative.


40 posted on 07/09/2021 12:57:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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