Posted on 02/15/2024 6:04:12 AM PST by JV3MRC
A leftist legal group heavily funded by leftist billionaire George Soros is trying to convince a federal appellate court that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn’t necessarily protect … free speech.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) actually argued that if the speech in question could be considered to constitute the murky concept of “harmful election disinformation,” First Amendment protections should be tossed to the curb. The group broke down its dystopian stance in a press release summarizing the sentiment of an amicus brief it filed with the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals for the ongoing United States v. Douglass Mackey case. Soros injected LCCRUL with at least $10,729,441 between 2016 and 2021 alone.
The LCCRUL’s extensive monetary connections to Soros are especially concerning given the latter’s deep investment into undercutting free speech online writ large. MRC Free Speech America released a study in September 2023 uncovering how Soros had funneled over $14.8 million to at least 50 leftist anti-free speech groups attempting to quash so-called “disinformation” online and elsewhere between 2017-2021.
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The 2020 US Presidential election was stolen
depends on what the definition of is is.
( hat tip bill c )
Hey! Who gave this group permission to speak publicly?
Wrong. The first amendment doesn’t delineate.
And this guys group just acquired the second largest radio station network in the US.
Get ready for full blown Tokyo rose style propaganda.
When I was in college (62 to 66 years ago), I almost always missed breakfast because my first class was at 6:45 a.m. I did not know I was on a hunger strike. If I did, I would most likely have been on the hunger strike to protest the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.
FYI: Soros just bought up the second largest radio network.
Harmful election disinformation = TRUTH.
Rundown on LCCRUL here:
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/lawyers-committee-for-civil-rights-under-law/
“In recent years the Lawyers’ Committee has advocated and litigated on a broad range of left-progressive policy issues including the push to place public housing in suburban areas, rent control, the removal of the citizenship question and the inclusion of illegal immigrants in the count for the 2020 Census, mail-in-voting and removal of requirements for proof of citizenship in voting, reinstating the Obama administration’s expansive birth control mandate, ending cash bail, race-based college admissions, the elimination of ACT/SAT test scores as a factor in college admissions, and advocated for a Department of Justice investigation into alleged right-wing extremist involvement in 2020 riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. 2 3 4 5
LCCRUL leads the Election Protection Coalition consisting of left-of-center organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR); the Alliance for Youth Action; and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 6
The Ford Foundation was an early major donor; current donors include the left-of-center groups Open Society Foundations (OSF) and NEO Philanthropy. 7”
Their president Damon Hewitt is linked to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents terrorist groups:
https://keywiki.org/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights
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