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Justice Jackson Complains First Amendment Is ‘Hamstringing’ Feds’ Censorship Efforts
The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 03/18/2024 11:55:44 AM PDT by packagingguy

Free speech is on trial at the Supreme Court, but Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is no fan of the First Amendment. The Constitution, you see, limits the government. But leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution.

During Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly known as Biden v. Missouri, Jackson claimed to oppose any ruling in favor of Americans’ constitutional right to free speech if it limited the government’s ability to censor that speech via Big Tech.

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson told Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.

Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in the federal government’s unconstitutional censorship pressure campaign because “some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country” that goes far beyond simply posting its own speech or engaging in constitutional means of securing citizens from violence.

“You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”

Aguiñaga clarified that he wasn’t arguing for a complete ban on all interaction between the government and social media companies, but for that relationship to stay within constitutional bounds.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Missouri
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To: Red Badger

The purpose of our Constitution is expressed in its Preamble.


61 posted on 03/18/2024 1:01:22 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Eleutheria5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk


62 posted on 03/18/2024 1:10:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Jacquerie

Which boils down to restraining the government and freeing the people............


63 posted on 03/18/2024 1:14:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: packagingguy

Same mentality as a ghetto stickup man.


64 posted on 03/18/2024 1:19:09 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: budj

She’s being paid to be stupid.


65 posted on 03/18/2024 1:20:04 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: Veto!

Stolen elections have consequences


66 posted on 03/18/2024 1:24:03 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: kiryandil
Jackson expressed skepticism at reigning in

Reining in. Maybe the author is using a buggy spell checker.

67 posted on 03/18/2024 1:25:19 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: packagingguy

I think the constitution doesn’t mean what she thinks it means. 😆


68 posted on 03/18/2024 1:27:16 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Whoa boy


69 posted on 03/18/2024 1:27:50 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: packagingguy

>>> that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information

Government bureaucrats cannot be allowed to judge what is or isn’t harmful.


70 posted on 03/18/2024 1:28:09 PM PDT by jdege
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To: KarlInOhio

See #67.


71 posted on 03/18/2024 1:28:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: midwest_hiker

The government has social media accounts. Nothing prevents them from warning people to stay away from bridges.


72 posted on 03/18/2024 1:35:58 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

It’s a misleading throwaway line at FR that demeans the purposes of our Constitution.


73 posted on 03/18/2024 1:39:10 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: packagingguy

By her own logic, Justice Jackson should be silenced because what she proposes threatens human rights and the Constitution.


74 posted on 03/18/2024 1:42:46 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Red Badger

Not sure she understands that but she is trying to see how far the government should be able to go and the AG from Louisiana is not pushing back at all. He’s agreeing with her that the government has the right to suppress speech.


75 posted on 03/18/2024 1:53:21 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: jdege

“Government bureaucrats cannot be allowed to judge what is or isn’t harmful.”

Exactly. The AG from Louisiana is not doing a good job making that point. He’s actually agreeing with the idiot KJT that the gov has a right in some cases, to suppress speech, like when kids are exposed to bad things.....crazy.


76 posted on 03/18/2024 1:55:24 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: packagingguy

That pesky Constitution keeps getting in the way of our Socialist Utopia.


77 posted on 03/18/2024 2:03:32 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: packagingguy

It actually is total as far as “opining” what’s true or false, good or bad.


78 posted on 03/18/2024 2:04:43 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: packagingguy

The Constitution now says whatever five out of nine Supreme Court Justices want it to say. Of course, one problem with having a “flexible” Constitution is that at any time another five out of nine Supreme Court Justices may want it to say something different.


79 posted on 03/18/2024 2:07:33 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: packagingguy

She’s a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. She’s too ignorant to know she’s ignorant.


80 posted on 03/18/2024 2:31:27 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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