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Justice Jackson Complains First Amendment Is ‘Hamstringing’ Feds’ Censorship Efforts
The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 03/18/2024 11:55:44 AM PDT by packagingguy

Free speech is on trial at the Supreme Court, but Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is no fan of the First Amendment. The Constitution, you see, limits the government. But leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution.

During Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly known as Biden v. Missouri, Jackson claimed to oppose any ruling in favor of Americans’ constitutional right to free speech if it limited the government’s ability to censor that speech via Big Tech.

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.

Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in the federal government’s unconstitutional censorship pressure campaign because “some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country” that goes far beyond simply posting its own speech or engaging in constitutional means of securing citizens from violence.

“You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”

Aguiñaga clarified that he wasn’t arguing for a complete ban on all interaction between the government and social media companies, but for that relationship to stay within constitutional bounds.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Missouri
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To: packagingguy

She doesn’t even know what the hell she’s talking about she’s just a communist dope with no respect for the Constitution.
If I want to get on my soapbox during the worst pandemic ever to hit earth and scream “don’t take the medicine! “ that’s my God given right to Free Speech and your only way to counter me is to tell people I’m wrong.
Just like with every other single example anyone can think of.


81 posted on 03/18/2024 2:37:32 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Tell It Right
If the SCOTUS members do any kind of deliberations amongst each other, I hope that senior Justice Clarence Thomas SCHOOLS THAT MARXIST (almost cussed right here)!

I haven't made it through the entire transcript yet, but Alito took some serious whacks at the government's attorney early on.

82 posted on 03/18/2024 2:54:14 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: packagingguy

In other words, The Constitution is antithetical to tyranny.

Hooda thunkit?


83 posted on 03/18/2024 2:57:03 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: packagingguy

https://babylonbee.com/news/ketanji-brown-jackson-warns-right-to-free-speech-would-mean-people-could-speak-freely


84 posted on 03/18/2024 3:05:38 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: packagingguy

The Wright brothers would be in jail and Langley’s plane would still be burried in the banks of the river running through the swamp.


85 posted on 03/18/2024 3:11:39 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: packagingguy

No government has ever concerned itself with censoring falsehoods.

The only thing any government has ever tried to censor is the truth.


86 posted on 03/18/2024 5:44:56 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous w)
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To: packagingguy

Another Ruth Bader Ginsburg.. She’ll never make a proper ruling actually supporting the constitution..


87 posted on 03/18/2024 6:00:32 PM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: packagingguy
That is exactly what the 1A is supposed to do, "hamstring" the government.
And the 2A and all the others.
Limit what the government can do. Not us.

88 posted on 03/18/2024 6:07:44 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: packagingguy

Words from the woman who doesn’t know what a woman is.


89 posted on 03/18/2024 7:42:53 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: packagingguy

“Justice Jackson:
“I understood our First Amendment jurisprudence to require heightened scrutiny of government restrictions of speech, but not necessarily a total prohibition when you’re talking about a compelling interest of the government to ensure, for example, that the public has accurate information in the context of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.””

No doubt, she is referring to accurate information from the government like... the vaccines are safe and effective, the Antifa riots were mostly peaceful, white supremacy is the main threat to “our democracy”, Jan. 6 was a violent insurrection, and there was no election fraud/theft in 2020.

Yeah... we really want to ensure that that kind of government “information” continues unchallenged, Ketanji. And trust me when I say... We, the People have nothing but complete trust in anything you have to say on the matter, or in any ruling you will make on these matters. Honest.


90 posted on 03/18/2024 7:57:25 PM PDT by Danie_2023 (n)
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To: packagingguy

Nobody’s hamstringing ANYBODY.

AS THE FOUNDERS DECIDED...THE ANSWER TO A REPORTED “FACT”, MUST BE ANSWERED BY “WORDS, PROVEN FACTS, EMPIRICAL DATA, TESTIMONY...THEN...MORE AND MORE W O R D S.

THAT IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WHAT IS MEANT BY ...MORE SPEECH...

But, they don’t have time to do that...that takes WORK to present the TRUE fact...

AND THIS, GIRLS AND BOYS, IS WHAT THE DIMOCRAPS DO NOT DO WELL.

What they do well is keep repeating and accusing the opponent of what they are doing..

THEY ARE MASTERS AT DOING THAT.

But not with me and many others who have figured out the SCAM.


91 posted on 03/18/2024 8:59:53 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Thunder90
Jackson Complains First Amendment Is ‘Hamstringing’ Feds’ Censorship Efforts

GOOD!


92 posted on 03/18/2024 9:21:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: KarlInOhio

But most of the article was mainly plain.


93 posted on 03/18/2024 9:23:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: blackdog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_refrigerator

Luckily, My SAMSUNG is older...


94 posted on 03/18/2024 9:26:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NorthMountain

bingo


95 posted on 03/18/2024 9:28:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2010:20&version=NIV


96 posted on 03/18/2024 9:29:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Maris Crane; All

Watch This (12 min.) ! ! ! !

Mary Holland And Mike Davis Detail The Censorship Case In The Supreme Court

https://rumble.com/v4k2hco-mary-holland-and-mike-davis-detail-the-censorship-case-in-the-supreme-court.html


97 posted on 03/18/2024 10:53:17 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: packagingguy
"First Amendment ‘Hamstringing’ Feds’ Censorship Efforts"

Dear Kunta Kinte Jackson, it's a feature, not a bug.

98 posted on 03/19/2024 5:33:14 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: packagingguy
"My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.

He should have just said that's the point of the first amendment, and sat down.
99 posted on 03/19/2024 1:45:26 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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