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 ...
Brown proves that John Adams nailed it:
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
This is why attempts to mimic the US Constitution in third world countries always fail.
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.
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When you have a Supreme Court Justice with the first name: “Kentanji” you know your “law system” is a joke.
Kentanji, Fani, Letitia.......Hmmm.....I’m sensing a pattern.... Nah, must be my imagination.(sarcasm)
At least the Federalist didn't say "raining in".
“...encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,...”
And therein lies the rub. She’s suggesting that the “government” is and should be the sole arbiter of what be deemed “harmful information” rather than it’s citizens.
That my friends is the bedrock of a communist autocracy.
Jumanji...
Key point in the article. Jackson is using the "just the tip" argument horny teenage boys use in a heated makeout session in the car's back seat.
Now imagine that argument expanded to that WHO treaty-not-a-treaty monstrosity being considered. Everything will suddenly be an "emergency".
Its going to get to a point where people say the equivalent of Wyatt Earp in "Tombstone": "I don’t think I’ll let you arrest us today, Behan."
Her opinion is sedition, pure and simple.
Indeed.
That's the idea, Mizz Justice Brown Jackson. The Constitution in general defines, and strictly limits, the powers of government. The White Men who wrote it were a lot smarter than you.
“Hamstringing” is violent rhetoric!
It refers to the action of a competitor cutting the hamstring muscle of other competitors in order to win.”
kunta kinte was ham-strung, I saw it on Roots.
That woman is RACIST!!
Really.
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Those I have known with those names, and LaShawn, Deontay, etc- I just call them the generic Scrabble. It is surprising how little objection I get, maybe they are unfamiliar with the word game. It occurred to me once that these names came from tossing out a mess of Scrabble tiles then lining them up and that’s a name.
That is why any effort to Make America Great Again without an even greater effort to Make Americans Good Again is doomed to failure.
100%
The government, then, is always right, and can never be challenged. Wish I could say it’s been nice knowing the government.
Lord, have mercy on us!
All the women on the court seemed to favor the government during arguments I heard.
And that dang old Second Amendment is unfairly hamstring the government from turning us all into complete and abject slaves
I guess three letter agencies will have to promulgate their new “standards”.
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