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subscribe nowWhy would foreign agitators be granted the same First Amendment protections as US Citizens? Plenty of native born Americans hate this country, do we really need to import more of them? This stuff gets pretty close to needing to remind people the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.
Because constitutional rights are not limited to citizens....and because what Trump is doing is selecting the kind of speech that he will let be protected and what will not be. That makes the right to have controversial opinions depend on your politics, and as Justice Scalia said:
The fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it. Indeed, if it is the speaker’s opinion that gives offense, that consequence is a reason for according it constitutional protection.”
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, an Ethiopian migrant shot and killed 3 apartment managers. Remember how the Demstream Media always wanted to talk about "mass shootings" and "gun violence"? 0 stories about this one. Doesn't fit the narrative.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2079957617384816902
Poor Andy. What a way to spend your life.
If they're determined to have the narrative, it's impossible to pry them away from it.
A typical narrative is that the Republican appointed members of SCOTUS are not objective but Republican hacks despite Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett siding with the majority in the birthright-citizenship decision. They wouldn't even hear Trump's argument about the stolen election. They sided against Trump on tariffs, and wouldn't hear his case re his sexual abuse.
McCarthy needs a daily wellness check. Defending the fire starting Muslim foreigner is indefensible.