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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ketanji Jackson Worried That the 1st Amendment is Hamstringing
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:17:29 -0400
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On 3/22/24 4:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2024 at 4:08:21 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/21/24 4:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   In article <17bede76861e0687$3579$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>>     moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 3/21/2024 2:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>   In article
>>>>>   <17bed676b63ac4b3$30484$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>>>>      moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   On 3/21/2024 11:05 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>>>>>   On 3/20/24 2:50 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>   In article <utevar$1iacj$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   Or try publishing National Defense secrets...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   No, Effa, we already resolved that one and, as usual, your point of view
>>>>>>>>   loses:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   New York Times v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   RULING: The New York Times' publishing of the national security
>>>>>>>>   information found in the Pentagon Papers is protected speech under the
>>>>>>>>   1st Amendment, even during time of war.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Once again reinforcing that there is no 'emergency exception' to the
>>>>>>>>   requirements and restrictions the Constitution places on the government.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   (This is one of those landmark cases that you should have learned about
>>>>>>>>   in grade school, Effa. Certainly something a self-proclaimed amateur
>>>>>>>>   historian should-- but apparently doesn't-- know.)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   And the press is a protected institution. You're not the press.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   A key difference being that the press is assumed to be a responsible
>>>>>>   source of information and not a bullhorn.
>>>>>
>>>>>   That is not and never has been a condition of SCOTUS free press
>>>>>   jurisprudence.
>>>>
>>>>   Right. Just like how the 2nd amendment doesn't exclude WMDs...
>>>   
>>>   Analogy fail.
>>>   
>>>   You're comparing the text of an amendment to 200+ years of Supreme Court
>>>   jurisprudence interpreting an amendment.
>>>   
>> Nope, it was perfectly apt, and nothing you cited changed that.
>> SCALIA.  Remember him?
>>
>> Because every time I bring him up to you about how no amendment is
>> sacrosanct (not even the second), you fall into that coma again.
> 
> No, I don't. Every time you bring that up, I ask you whether you think that
> it'd be okay for the government to make exceptions to Amendment XIX and
> prohibit women from voting since "no amendment is sacrosanct", after all. Or
> since "no amendment is sacrosanct", it'd be okay for the government to
> prohibit black people from voting (Amendment XV) and allow people to be owned
> as slaves (Amendment XIII).
> 
> And that's when *you* go into a coma.
> 
> 

No amendment is above being regulated.  Period.

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