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@usconstamendi.bsky.social
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I am the First Amendment. I love to post about myself. Take advantage of me but please don't violate me.

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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...
ca5.uscourts.gov
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Oh I’m big alright, but not in the way they like 😂
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
This one really struck a nerve with the pro-Elon crowd 😂
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Been on Twitter like 3 times this month because I just can’t work up the energy needed to battle the blue checks
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Ah one of my favorite responses….
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
I’m really needing Bluesky to start feeding me content like this
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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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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Wow one I can post that is actually from this platform lol
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/11/2023
Another day hiking in the wilderness but took enough of a break to write up my thoughts on Elon Musk's SLAPP suit. www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/c...
techdirt.com
Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Cr...
So, yesterday we covered Elon Musk’s ridiculous censorial threat to sue Media Matters “the split second the court opens on Monday.” Of course, as we noted, you can file lawsuits 24/7. And yet, a...
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
This is where I come when I can’t take any more of those replies lol
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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
www.mtsu.edu/first-amendm...
mtsu.edu
Texas v. Johnson
Texas v. Johnson (1989) struck down on First Amendment grounds a flag desecration law. The has decision served as the crux of the debate about burning of the U.S. flag in protest.
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
The fact that you can express yourself by burning the American flag is one of the things that makes America great.
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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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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Sounds like Texas lol
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
I protect your right to perform in drag.
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
I protect your right to call someone an “insurrectionist” for their activities on January 6. reason.com/volokh/2023/...
reason.com
Lawsuit Over Alec Baldwin's Publicly Labeling Woman "Insurrectionist" for Her Jan. 6 Activities Dism...
Plaintiffs sued for defamation, and also for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress stemming from the comments aroused by Baldwin's posts.
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
I protect your right to criticize police. reason.com/2023/08/11/a-louisiana-m…
reason.com
He was jailed for criticizing police. A federal court wasn't having it.
The decision supports the notion that victims should be entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.
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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
“Some people get all the luck, but some gotta live.”—The Wonder Years.
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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
I’m stuck in my ways
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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 · 05/08/2023
Anything but that lol
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
The opinion: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memo…
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
I protect your right to post flyers with inappropriate or offensive language. reason.com/volokh/2023/08/03/colleg…
reason.com
College Ban on "Inappropriate or Offense Language or Themes" in Bulletin Board Postings Struck Down
The case involved Young Americans for Freedom postings about "Leftist Ideas" and about abortion.
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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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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Full opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov…
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
I protect your right to perform in drag in public, including drag story hour. montanafreepress.org/2023/07/28/mon…
montanafreepress.org
Montana’s anti-drag law on hold ahead of Pride festivities
A federal judge temporarily restrained officials from enforcing HB 359 after a Wednesday hearing on the Republican-crafted law.
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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
If you haven’t been accused of “anti-cop bigotry,” what are you even doing 😂
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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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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 23/07/2023
9+ years on twitter with 100k+ followers and I’ve never blocked a single person. I choose to destroy them head on instead.
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 22/07/2023
I protect your right to film the police. Keep filming to keep helping. arizonaslaw.blogspot.com/2023/07/ne…
arizonaslaw.blogspot.com
NEW: 2022 Arizona Law Restricting Taking Video Of Law Enforcement Declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL (READ Or...
Nonprofit news and podcast about Arizona legal news & courts. Opinions/decisions, including Arizona Supreme Court, 9th Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court.
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 22/07/2023
Also the blocking function is much stronger here and I was mass blocked by almost everyone on the site who is inclined to make bad 1A takes, which has made it more difficult
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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 · 20/07/2023
The ruling: www.atheists.org/wp-content/uploads…
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The First Amendment @usconstamendi.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
I protect your right not to be compelled to complete a substance abuse treatment program involving pervasive religious elements. www.atheists.org/2023/07/wv-atheist…
atheists.org
WV Court Blocks Unconstitutional Prison Program Targeting Incarcerated Atheist
Charleston, WV — In a sweeping 60-page decision issued yesterday, a federal judge ruled in favor of Andrew Miller, an atheist and Secular Humanist, who has been forced to participate in religious su...
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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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