Posted on 08/15/2019 9:59:16 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Fauxcohontas has much experience defending false claims.
Psychojawea - dangerously stupid
A senator can say what s/he wants, in the Senate (altho the fact that the Senate is televised actually makes that problematic, in that such senator is virtually “in” the TV viewers’ homes, as well as physically in the capitol building).But a Senator who goes to a public event and lie about the officer who found it necessary to fire at someone, and who was acquitted, is exposed to a suit for slander.
The New York Times v. Sullivan 1964 SCOTUS decision is used to protect members of the journalism cartel from libel suits by Republican - but I can’t conceive that Senators have a right to libel private citizens.
The inflammatory speech of the democrats may one day transport them to a time and place where it is not the mentally ill or politically motivated that use guns to kill, but otherwise rational people who see the only logical consequence of this type rhetoric that forces the capture by force or murder of their own kind in order to separate this cancer from the host.
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