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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I protect your right not to be arrested for posting zombie jokes on Facebook. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I protect hate speech. While some hateful speech might otherwise meet the test for another exception, there is no exception to me for speech that is bigoted, racist, or hateful.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 21/11/2023

The gall of a government officials calling anyone else "anti free speech" while announcing a government investigation into protected speech.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

There is no radical left-wing organization exception to me. I protect your right to report that Twitter showed you ads next to hateful content.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

X filed this in federal court in Texas to avoid application of an anti-SLAPP statute. In the Fifth Circuit — including Texas — anti-SLAPP statutes do not apply in federal court even to state claims. The Ninth Circuit — where X has its principal place of business - applies anti-SLAPP statutes. /1

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

After years of presenting shams about government censorship, this is an actual government censorship and chilling of speech through intimidation and lawfare on behalf of the richest man in America.

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

The press release candidly concedes that the goal is to target what it calls "radical left-wing organizations," so I guess it's undisputed that this case involves targeting people at least in part because of their perceived political associations???

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I protect your right to speak about things you viewed and experienced on Twitter.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

I protect your right to burn the American flag in protest. Jailing people for doing it would violate me.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

By the way, because the issue rarely gets litigated and even more rarely appealed, the application of the First Amendment to pretrial gag orders and speech-related conditions of release is appallingly sparse and mostly unhelpful.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Well that one day like half this site did

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

I protect you from the government, not from NASCAR.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

My end-qualified-immunity campaign has met similarly moronic resistance. If anything opens up the system to rampant abuse, it’s qualified immunity.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Problem with statement is that “free speech absolutist” is used to mean (1) actual free speech absolutists, like William O. Douglas, none of whom I have ever encountered, (2) people who accurately describe and/or support the current state of the law but that makes people salty, or …

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

I protect your right to refer a woman across state lines to an abortion provider. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov…

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Anti-SLAPP victory this morning. Dear California plaintiffs and lawyers: please remember that under CA law even if I take a case pro bono, I am entitled to recover my fees and costs at my rack rates.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

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.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

If only it were legal to alert people in the theater... Oh right, it is. Thanks, First Amendment!

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

My film-the-police campaign is going well on Twitter

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

There are fewer really bad First Amendment takes here — like FAR fewer — and I worry that @badlegaltakes.bsky.social and @usconstamendi.bsky.social will starve. Also it’s weird.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

I protect your right to perform in drag in public.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

The fifth circuit temporarily halted the injunction barring the federal government from meeting with social media companies about content moderation and misinformation online

Order: appeal is expected; temporay administrative stay granted; stay pending appeal motion deferred to merits panel. Panel: Stewart, graves, Oldham

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

I protect you from the government, not from Bluesky. A private company choosing not to allow racial slurs on its platform does not violate me.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

This is a fair critique. People accurately explaining 303 Creative need to acknowledge that (1) however narrow it is there are going to be concerted efforts by bad people to push it much further and (2) some of those efforts may temporarily succeed before bad judges.

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Neil McCauley era @mindcrime.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Which nerd invited the 1st amendment account?

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

I protect your right to sell LGBT-themed merchandise.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

The First Amendment is about to break the top 10 most blocks and I’ve dropped out of the top 50 like a schnook. Cc: @usconstamendi.bsky.social

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

I protect your right to sing different lyrics to the National Anthem. Revoking an American’s citizenship for that would violate me.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

However unsavory the Plaintiff, this is a mega-smash, super important First Amendment win. Surreptitious recording is essential in a host of news-gathering and other contexts. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin… (Via Short Circuit IJ.)

Oregon law makes it a crime to surreptitiously record conversations with another person without their knowledge . . . unless you’re a cop performing official duties, in which case, record away! Project Veritas—which has something of a history of secretly recording conversations—challenges the recording ban as a violation of the First Amendment. Ninth Circuit: And they’re right. The ban is unconstitutional. Dissent: We should just sever the exceptions for law enforcement and then the ban is fine.

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/07/2023

He was looking up obscenity cases in Westlaw. Ugh. 🙄

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Chris Jones @cjonesny.com · 06/07/2023

When we see FL and TX passing laws against "CRT" based on the premise that it's harmful to Whites - and those laws appear so far to be mostly blocked by the courts - it's just crazy to me for the left to be advocating for a weakening of 1A.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Incitement requires the advocacy of imminent lawless action that is likely to produce such action. The material here, while repugnant, doesn't meet that standard.

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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I protect your right to say “Fuck the First Amendment” and “Fuck the Constitution” and that’s exactly why I deserve (though do not require you to show me any) respect.

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