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.Suppression of Free Speech?
I promise I will get away from political issues and back to the law soon. As a note about my previous two posts, I understand now why some of the normal election regulations did not apply to the caucuses. The caucuses are private events run and funded by the political parties. As far as this post goes, I am concerned about this trend of our public representatives asking private individuals/companies to limit speech they find offensive. This reminds me of when Harry Ried wrote a letter to Clear Channel asking them to fire Rush Limbaugh for comments he made on the air. The speech that the founders were particular concerned with protecting is political speech. That means the freedom to comment on any figure in the political, public sphere. I hope NBC puts Schuster back on air soon and Clinton should take some lessons from Obama on how to brush off inappropriate comments made by pundits who have to somehow fill 24 hours of news each day.
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