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Reporter who tangled with Lori Lightfoot sues after press pass was revoked: 'First Amendment on life support'
Fox News ^ | 11/23/22 | Madeline Coggins

Posted on 11/27/2022 2:13:37 PM PST by Libloather

A Chicago reporter is taking Mayor Lori Lightfoot to court for her "attack on the First Amendment" after facing a slew of angry responses from the Democratic leader and losing his press credentials.

"I was asking the obvious questions, and she lost her temper," journalist William Kelly said Wednesday on "Fox & Friends," recalling a May exchange when she told him he was "full of crap."

"Mayor Lightfoot is in re-election mode, and she doesn't want any more embarrassing questions to go viral. So she revoked my media credential. … This is a very serious constitutional crisis in the city of Chicago."

In August, Kelly's media credentials were revoked. He responded by filing a federal lawsuit alleging Lightfoot and Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown violated his First and 14th Amendment rights.

On "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in September, Kelly alleged that Lightfoot and Brown helped fabricate an altercation on July 19 between him and the mayor's security detail. He added this "false report" was used as the pretext to keep him out of press events.

"The problem is that [Brown] sat down and wrote me a letter telling me that he was revoking my media credentials when the police department is down 1,500 officers, we have an out-of-control crime epidemic, police suicide is at an all-time high," Kelly said Wednesday. "He's taking time out of his day to write me a letter telling me that he's revoking my media credential.

"I think the priorities are completely out of whack."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; censorship; chicago; freespeech; lightfoot; press; shaddap; woke
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Da maya kan tell any of yous guys ta shaddap. Now, shaddap.
1 posted on 11/27/2022 2:13:37 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

More people in Chicago murdered this weekend than at the gay/tranny nightclub.
Did the bug eyed bitch release a statement?


2 posted on 11/27/2022 2:16:15 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Libloather

3 posted on 11/27/2022 2:18:08 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Libloather

He filed the lawsuit against the Mayor in August or September. Here we are on the verge of December, and still nothing has happened?
Is he waiting for a court date? Maybe that’s what is going on.


4 posted on 11/27/2022 2:20:33 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Libloather

I’m not gonna boost the reporter.
He was stupid enough to pretend that he could ply his trade with a press pass issued by the government.
It’s no different from a Driver’s License.


5 posted on 11/27/2022 2:20:43 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: Libloather

6 posted on 11/27/2022 2:26:34 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Libloather

When Chicago burned down the last time guess they didn’t get the hint why it got worse.


7 posted on 11/27/2022 2:27:18 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Libloather

Petulant Democrats ALWAYS want to restrict dissenting voices. Always have, always will.


8 posted on 11/27/2022 2:33:49 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Libloather

“I have the biggest dock in Chicago!” —Little Lori Lightfoot


9 posted on 11/27/2022 2:49:26 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Libloather
Guilty of being an uppity white man.
10 posted on 11/27/2022 2:51:00 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Libloather

Lawz not be applyin’ to mah body y’all wacissts


11 posted on 11/27/2022 2:51:56 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

...and remember, this is a woman who violated her own Covid lockdown restrictions to get a haircut.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/i-take-my-personal-hygiene-very-seriously-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-violates-her-own-quarantine-advice-to-get-a-haircut/


12 posted on 11/27/2022 2:53:33 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Two photos.....

Each one considers the other to be the black sheep of the family.


13 posted on 11/27/2022 3:25:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: martin_fierro

Must’ve spit out the hook…


14 posted on 11/27/2022 3:43:52 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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15 posted on 11/27/2022 3:45:19 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Libloather

Unless another democrat runs against her, she’ll be elected again.


16 posted on 11/27/2022 3:55:20 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Please Support FR
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17 posted on 11/27/2022 4:05:48 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Libloather

Who was it that said the task of the press is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable?


18 posted on 11/27/2022 4:07:51 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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FOX filed Legal briefs to keep Jim Acosta in there assaulting people and taking Microphones at the WH.

Then they put a guy in there with virtually no experience to cover Biden.

.


19 posted on 11/27/2022 4:13:29 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: AnthonySoprano

Then they put a guy in there with virtually no experience to be President.


20 posted on 11/27/2022 4:24:31 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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