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To: joesbucks

I haven’t seen where Trump or his campaign did anything. I have seen it stated that GOP actors solicited to have posts “actioned,” but I haven’t seen any names.

Obviously, the same standard should govern all.

That said, a campaign is only distinct from the person for whom it acts to the extent it acts INDEPENDENTLY of that person’s control.

More broadly, what we’re delving into really is driving to the heart of the First Amendment itself, and how it’s worded specifically.

Who is constrained by it? Congress.

How are they constrained? They are enjoined from making any law constraining free speech.

And are those constraints extensible to other elements of the federal government Beyond Congress?

With that question, our discussion explodes into the technical depths of two centuries of free speech jurisprudence, and becomes the stuff of specifically knowledgeable legal experts, a cadre in which I do not share membership.

I can opine at length as to what I think the courts should hold as The Standard, according to my understanding of the sense of the broader Constitution and the Declaration Independence. But what I think, and how the Supreme Court sees the matter, rest upon two separate data sets; mine governed by my reading of founding documents, and theirs colored additionally by intervening rulings of the Court, both grand and awful.

These are two different universes, and whether the twain shall ever meet is beyond our capacity to substantively control.


103 posted on 12/04/2022 12:11:39 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23
Try this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1269370

126 posted on 12/04/2022 1:46:44 PM PST by joesbucks
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