When you join the military you are subject to the UCMJ. The UCMJ restricts constitutional rights, such as free speech. You can be thrown in jail for not showing up to work. You can be tried in a civilian court, found guilty, then be tried in a military court for the same offense. You can be charged with sending emails that are disparaging to the president.
If this person hung these sayings on her computer desk at a bank she might have won this case. What she and her lawyer forgot is she is subject to military law not constitutional law.
A Representative Republic is a form of democracy.
Oh, I'll take this one!
The Constitution prohibits the Congress from passing any law abridging free speech, just as you cite; moreover, the particular amendment doing so expressly applies the prohibition of passing any such law directly and specifically to the Congress. The UCMJ is a law passed by Congress — if then the UCMJ does indeed restrict free speech then by the first amendment it is null and void.
QED
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>> “When you join the military you are subject to the UCMJ. The UCMJ restricts constitutional rights, such as free speech...” <<
Then the UCMJ is utterly null and void!
Congress lacks the power to unilaterally nullify the constitution.
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