Ken WhiteMay 2024 is a very reasonable, perhaps a bit fast, trial date for Trump’s case. Don’t let people who don’t know what they are talking about tell you otherwise.
Seán Fenian@Popehat I just worry about Trump stalling until after the election, winning the election, and then the Republican Party conspiring to make him emperor-for-life in all but name and just making it all go away. It truly seems as though today's Republican Party thinks of the Constitution as an obsolete and irrelevant obstacle to their power.
Robin Whitworth@rwhit @Popehat The first amendment doesn't give you a right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater just for your amusement. And the Second doesn't grant you a right to go shoot up a school or a hospital because you're mad at somebody or hate your life. The trouble is the zealots on the right think any effort to stop idiots from shooting up schools, hospitals or shopping malls is an infringement on "MUH FREEDOMS".
Kevin Hardiman@zakalwe @[email protected] @[email protected] recommended reading, authored by the poster of this thread: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/free-speech-cliches-media-should-stop-using/596506/
@kevin_hardiman @[email protected] @[email protected] interesting background.
The point remains though that neither the First nor the Second amendment confers an absolute protection with no exceptions.
The point remains though that neither the First nor the Second amendment confers an absolute protection with no exceptions.