#SCOTUS is likely to decide the cases by June, in the critical months ahead of the #election.
#FirstAmendment experts warn that either argument could lead to outcomes that would be deleterious for #democracy. If the court rules in favor of the #tech companies, the industry could argue that the 1A precludes a broad array of proposed #regulation. If the states win, govts across the country may push ahead w/rules that give states unprecedented #influence over #political#discourse#online.
#ChristianNationalism is inconsistent with personal #freedom, including the #FirstAmendment’s guarantee that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
A society where one set of religious views is imposed on a large number of citizens who disagree with them is not a #democracy. It’s a #theocracy.
The clips, which included unaired, #antisemitic remarks by #KanyeWest, were published by Vice & MediaMatters
Tim Burke, a freelance journalist & #media consultant, has been charged w/ 14 federal #crimes, including #conspiracy. Burke was #arrested this morning….
Mark Rasch, Burke’s lawyer & an ex-federal prosecutor who pursued cases for the #DOJ’s #fraud unit, has maintained that the #FoxNews clips were obtained legally, & that Burke is a #journalist whose activities are protected by the #FirstAmendment.
Last May, Burke’s home in Tampa, FL, was raided by the FBI as part of the investigation into how unaired clips of Fox News’ #TuckerCarlson Tonight were leaked to Vice & liberal watchdog MediaMatters.
"The bill would remove criminal exemptions for #schools, public #libraries, and #museums that distribute or display 'obscene matter' to a minor...
The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct."
“This is very, very unsettling if you are a journalist ... because they are basically saying you can’t do certain things that are obviously something you would do as a journalist.”
“'A question shadowing suits such as these is whether there is a #FirstAmendment right to refuse to wear a protective mask as required by valid health and safety orders put in place during a recognized #PublicHealth emergency. Like all courts to address this issue, we conclude there is not...
"Keep the church and the state forever separate."
— President Ulysses S. Grant, meritorious target of today's rebellious revanchists —
What was in it for Trump in Opus-Dei-$$ for selling a cabinet job, that injected "religious" zealot Mike Pompeo into the United States executive branch of power?
"As a congressman, Pompeo had voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Pompeo co-sponsored the State Marriage Defense Act that would have allowed states to not recognize same-sex marriages. He co-sponsored the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act in order to protect the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations with religious objections to same-sex marriage. Neither bill passed."
My wife couldn't sleep last night because she's a middle school librarian and our state legislature is pushing through book ban bills that are, frankly, authoritarian.
The new laws will allow: a member of the state legislature to unilaterally pull books off the shelves in their area; a book to be banned statewide if only three school (out of ~40) districts ban it; the fining and/or jailing of teachers for having "objectively sensitive" materials.
The fear here is not that this bill will pass—even in #Oklahoma—because this almost certainly violates all kinds of #FirstAmendment rulings. The concern is that people like Deevers are on a mission to legislate their personal #Christian morality… or at least the version of it they pretend to have in public.