Posted on 10/18/2017 4:54:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Football players kneel. Owners support them. President threatens owners with tax consequences. What does the First Amendment say about all this? This is not an easy question, though some of President Trump’s critics seem to think it is.
The ACLU has said it is ready to defend the First Amendment rights of players and to challenge the president’s “unconstitutional efforts to bully the NFL into complying with his view of what is politically correct.” But are President Trump’s efforts “unconstitutional,” or are they constitutionally protected expression?
Some Trump critics allege that the presidential threats constitute state action and chill the First Amendment rights of the kneeling players and their supportive owners. They cite the case of Playboy magazine and the American Booksellers Association against former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who formed a commission on pornography and sent letters threatening to publish a list of convenience stores that sold pornographic materials. Playboy charged that the attorney general was illegally attempting to censor constitutionally protected magazines.
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I say let them continue to kneel. They want to commit professional suicide, go ahead, I could care less. I don’t watch it anymore either way.
>>I say let them continue to kneel. They want to commit professional suicide, go ahead, I could care less. I don’t watch it anymore either way.<<
+1
They have their rights... The President has his... Let the public be the judge.
They have the right to protest anything they want. I exercised my rights and stopped watching them.
Excellent point. That’s the best way.
Let’s see, the NFL is a for-profit private enterprise who for some reason is getting a a deferred or exempt status on any income taxes. They exercise anti-trust style business tactics to squash any and all challengers in the free marketplace all subsidized by the US taxpayers.
Trump has every right to say what he did and if there are consequences for what he said, so be it. If the Congress does act on reviewing the NFL’s tax status for public debate, that is well withing their purview to do so as well.
How many people remember Obama and his statements like “The police acted stupidly” and how the public consequences caused him to schmooze over that one with the ridiculous Beer Summit?
The problem here is that Trump’s OPINIONS are pretty much in line with Joe Six Pack and all those who are pushing back are the same old typical Deep State ankle biters and the ultra liberal media.
The NFL players can use freedom of speech to destroy their workplace ?
The pathetic part is they, the players, do not even know what they are talking about. If they would take the time to research what has happened and what is happening daily relative to social justice they would be ashamed of their childish behavior and realize that they have received much better treatment than most Americans.
But, that takes an informed adult stance.
We have the right to NEVER watch another football game.
President Trump has the right to condemn the offensive NFL Pity Party...
Democrats have the right to bitch about it.
We have the right to call them unpatriotic idiots.
It's a free country.
Alan is beginning to realize he has been fighting the wrong people his whole life.
As the left lets its mask slide; Alan is “Woken” as to which side are NAZIS and which are freedom fighters.
I hope you’re right. It might be happening.. But sometimes I fear Alan Dershowitz is just in love with the Constitution... and he’ll never be ‘true’ to either party. Kind of like Jonathan Turley...
You’ll enjoy this - it supports your feeling that a major awakening is happening... and from a surprising source...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiVQ8vrGA_8
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