Posted on 11/28/2022 9:21:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This bill is in conflict with the First Amendment.
There’ll be lawsuits contesting the constitutionality.
I wasn’t referring to that. The poster to whom I was responding wanted to ban polling, I said that such a ban would likely be a violation of the First Amendment.
It’ll also have to make its way through a lame-duck Congress.
Government has been violating citizens’ constitutional rights for years. The legal theory is called the “rational basis” test. In short according to this theory, constitutional rights are never absolute, and government can violate anyone’s rights as long as government is trying to do something good and the law has a rational basis. In other words, courts balance constitutional rights against the government’s “right” to do whatever it wants. So the citizen rights that remain are watered down, weak, and murky. Well so much for that revolutionary idea that all men are born with inalienable rights from their Creator. That’s just another legal technicality to be finessed by the elitist judges.
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