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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Biden is your Deep State Experienced DC Insider.
And he doesn’t understand how minimum wage Jobs work, or the basics of Economics.
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Fos News = Deep State ball washers
“remember, this is a woman who violated her own Covid lockdown restrictions to get a haircut”
That’s s stupid. If you’re going to break the law, why would you only get a hair cut when you could get all of them cut?
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