Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raises eyebrows with comment that First Amendment “hamstrings" government

SamSpade

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said, "We will continue to be your single source of truth," and that, "Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth."
Canada's news is similar - if the government disapproves, it doesn't come out on TV or the CBC.
 

GURPS

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Note to Ketanji Brown Jackson: The First Amendment Should ‘Hamstring’ the Government. That’s the Entire Point.



Jackson suggested it would be unjust for the First Amendment to limit the government’s actions in addressing a hypothetical crisis, but the First Amendment expressly exists in order to hamstring the federal government.

As Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in response to Jackson’s concern about the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government, “that’s what it’s supposed to do, for goodness’ sake.”

The amendment states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


The amendment does not include a “crisis-exemption clause” allowing the government to trample on free speech if the president declares a national emergency. If it did, President Joe Biden might declare a national emergency on climate and strong-arm Big Tech into censoring opposition to the climate alarmist narrative. He might declare a national emergency on the nonexistent “epidemic” of violence against transgender people, and pressure social media to ban any disagreement with gender ideology.
 
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BOP

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raises eyebrows with comment that First Amendment “hamstrings" government


The Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case Murthy v. Biden early this summer


In a debate Monday at the Supreme Court challenging the Biden administration’s alleged coordination with Big Tech to censor certain messages, one justice raised eyebrows in her comments about the government’s relationship with the First Amendment.

In nearly two hours of oral arguments, the justices debated whether the Biden administration crossed the constitutional line, and whether its outreach efforts with private companies amounted to permissible persuasion or encouragement versus illegal coercion or threats of retaliation.

"It's got these big clubs available to it, and so it's treating Facebook and these other platforms like their subordinates," Justice Samuel Alito said. But Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took a different approach.

"Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods," she told the lawyer representing Louisiana, Missouri and private plaintiffs.

"The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information," she said.



That alone should be enough to impeach her EEO/DIE ass.
 

glhs837

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said, "We will continue to be your single source of truth," and that, "Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth."

Damn,....

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Hijinx

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Biden put this "lady" up for SCOTUS, yes, that's true, but she wouldn't be on the Supreme Court if Every Democrat and 3 Republicans hadn't voted to confirm her.
Democrats in the Congress are wasting a fortune in our taxes. We don't need all of them having offices and staffs.
All we need is for one Democrat to vote for all of them. That is essentially what they do anyway.
They all vote in lock step. Not one of them actually has enough mental acuity to vote any other way.
 

DaSDGuy

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"The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information," she said.
Using her own reasoning the government has an obligation to remove any and all of her words from all platforms because her words are harmful information.
 
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Hijinx

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I thought she was cute. Sounds like every other theater performer I've seen. She should be a stage actress instead of a SCJ.
I disagree she was cute, but agree she be a stage actress Or Molly Maid. instead of on the Supreme Court.
 
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