Justice Jackson misses the entire point of the First Amendment

“My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”

The whole point of the First Amendment is to “hamstring the government” from abridging the freedom of speech. The Constitution grants the government certain defined and limited powers, but abridging the freedom of speech is NOT one of them.

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“My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”

The whole point of the First Amendment is to “hamstring the government” from abridging the freedom of speech. The Constitution grants the government certain defined and limited powers, but abridging the freedom of speech is NOT one of them.

Unfortunately, Jackson is not alone in her incomprehension of the First Amendment. As reported by a columnist for Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets:

[Jackson’s] “hamstringing” comment came attached to a hypothetical scenario she posed to Benjamin Aguiñaga, Louisiana’s solicitor general, who argued the Biden administration had overstepped when it contacted social media platforms and attempted to pressure them to remove posts it found objectionable. Suppose a challenge circulated on social media concerning “teens jumping out of windows at increasing elevations,” Jackson said. Could the government try to persuade those platforms to remove that content?

No, Aguiñaga said, because that’s still protected speech, no matter how dangerous.

That might very well be the correct interpretation. But Jackson’s take—that such a view could place too much restraint on the government—is one that’s held by many, including, it appears, some of her more conservative colleagues. Kavanaugh, for example, invoked his experience working with government press staff, who regularly call reporters to criticize them and try to influence their coverage.

Here we see Justice Jackson (who is supposed to be an impartial judge) making a Straw Man out of the plaintiff’s argument, and the plaintiff’s attorney apparently accepting this fallacious supposition instead of rejecting it outright (which he should have done).

I doubt there is a singlereasonable adult in the country who would object to law enforcement intervening to stop the encouragement of teens to jump out of windows to their likely injury or death.

Jumping out of windows at increasing elevations is understood by all reasonable adults on earth to be an action that will likely result in injury or death to the jumper, depending on the height and hardness of the landing surface. Encouraging minors to do this is obviously NOT comparable to my interview with Dr. Peter McCullough in May 2021 in which he spoke about his research on the early treatment of COVID-19—research he conducted in collaboration with Drs. Harvey Risch, George Fareed, Didier Raoult, and other top experts in their fields.

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Antarctica has garnered quite a bit of attention and conspiracies as of late.   The continent contains 90% of the world’s ground freshwater and 60% of all freshwater… Its land is covered by a treaty of 12 nations.   While that land might not seem a good investment today, when the magnetic north continues its flip southward, Antarctica will warm.  The ice will melt.   And perhaps, a new rainforest will emerge…

NOTHING is ever done by The Cartel unless it provides them with abundant control and wealth.  NOTHING.

by Helena

Whatever happened to the war to defend Taiwan against Big Bad China?    CSIS ~ ”China’s defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing.”  A.   US is at war against Palestine.   B.   US is at war against Russia.   C.   US is asking for MONEY to combat the rise of China & Russia in Africa.  D.   US is still at war with Syria stealing all their oil while periodically lobbing bombs.   E.   US is now bombing Yemen.   F.   Congress asking for MONEY to build up Taiwan’s military.

I don’t know if these Spy NGO’s that Taxpayers fund are really that ignorant or if they really think lying is just the new normal.   The US spends $800 billion on the books for War.  Another $1.6 trillion has gone missing in the FY 2023 Budget.  That funds 2 additional militaries.   Or a whole lot of Bribes, Blackmail, Child Trafficking, and the losses incurred by Soros as a direct result of Ukraine refusing PEACE.  Ukraine has 2 last bastions:  Kyiv and Lviv.  Should those go – the Soros pawns have declared WWIII.

CSIS ~ “China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all US shipyards combined.”  The fact that China’s population is 4.25 times that of the US is lost on these neocons of nongenius expertness.

In 2021, China spent $270 billion for all its defense needs – nearly 300% LESS than the US.   As a result, the US has bestowed sanctions on every weapons manufacturer in China.  That’ll show them!   US Blinkens are telling the Saudi Crown Prince, Bin Salman, not to buy weapons from China even though they are half the price of their counterparts – Made in America.  IF the Middle East dares to buy weapons from China, then the White House handlers are prepared to punish the Middle East.   I remember when we had more allies than enemies…

Remember when Egypt was romanticized?  Dr. Zhivago.  We were friends with Iran, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, most of Africa, etc …   But all that was upsided when the US Coup Program became common knowledge and sovereignty became colonization.  Where will all these Zions go when they have finished their task of destruction?

Supressing a giggle, The Atlantic queries, “How has America slid into its current age of discord? Why has our trust in institutions collapsed, and why have our democratic norms unraveled?  Despite every historian declaring that ancient societies routinely collapsed due to Climate Change, The Atlantic proposes the cause is The Elite.  Apparently, there are too many wealthy and educated persons in America and not enough peasants.  Hence the import of uneducated immigrants to do the bidding of The Elite  ~ according to an elite research team employed by The Atlantic in data searching variables from 10,000 years of societal collapse.

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