Posted on 03/21/2024 3:22:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It is obviously un-American for the government to develop a ‘hit list’ of citizens to mute in the public square through secret pressure on communications monopolies.
The Biden administration attempted to distract the Supreme Court from the voluminous evidence of federal abuse of Americans’ speech rights during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri Monday. It sounded like several justices followed the feds’ waving red flag.
“The government may not use coercive threats to suppress speech, but it is entitled to speak for itself by informing, persuading, or criticizing private speakers,” said Biden administration lawyer Brian Fletcher in his opening remarks. He and several justices asserted government speech prerogatives that would flip the Constitution upside down.
The government doesn’t have constitutional rights. Constitutional rights belong to the people and restrain the government. The people’s right to speak may not be abridged. Government officials’ speaking, in their official capacities, may certainly be abridged. Indeed, it often must be, precisely to restrict officials from abusing the state’s monopoly on violence to bully citizens into serfdom.
It is obviously un-American and unconstitutional for the government to develop a “hit list” of citizens to mute in the public square through secret pressure on communications monopolies beholden to the government for their monopoly powers. There is simply no way it’s “protected speech” for the feds to use intermediaries to silence anyone who disagrees with them on internet forums where the majority of the nation’s political organizing and information dissemination occurs.
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Traitor Roberts would love to choose who are “disinformationists”.
Asking for forum thoughts here.
Is USSC Chief Justice Roberts compromised? Is he being blackmailed?
Is there ANY safety mechanism at all for fixing such a situation or is the status quo to pretend it can’t and isn’t happening anywhere and everywhere in government when there is money to be made and power to be kept or increased?
Sad to be cynical but I now think cheating is common in sports and I’m sure it is being used in government.
The entire collective government is in a state of chaotic corruptive collapse. I’m not optimistic for our side.
Roberts doesn’t want to end up like his predecessor.
The left is openly discussing assassinating Trump.
This country is on the precipice. We are looking at a civil war I believe. I carry every morning when I go to breakfast even in the small town near where I live. I always have a couple of guns in my vehicle.
We’re sure the cartels are operating here. Former police chief arrested for stealing evidence to protect the drug dealers. How much was he being paid?
Well, we know where the AA SCOTUS judge stands: can’t have that pesky First Amendment hamstringing the government. Despite the fact that that is exactly what it is supposed to do.
Perfectly understandable. She's not a biologist, after all.
This Supreme Court is the weakest ever. The Dung Beetle Party has scared the crap out of them. Saturday morning CNN/FBI Donut runs to their homes is not something the justices are looking forward to.
I don’t have an opinion as to whether or not Roberts is compromised/blackmailed or not but
he absolutely has an amorphous flexible view of the Constitution ... what an adamShiite
Someone must remind the government attorneys that the government has no rights, only citizens have rights under the Constitution.
Actually Roberts has a demonstrated ambivalent view of the US Constitution,
e.g. his refusal to enforce Constitutional requirements regarding elections.
What an adamSchiffhole
Really? Just took a look at how they were over ruled by a lower court after they ruled in Texas favor to arrest illgal criminal invaders. WRAP YOUR MIND ON THAT! A LOWER COURT gave the SCJustices the middle finger! How do you like them apples? Or judicial system is falling apart!
Be careful what you wish for.
Just the opposite...the court is stronger now than in the last 50 years.
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