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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pre
by ISL 4y ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The first amendment doesn't necessarily directly apply (our understanding of the word "press" has broadened with time), but it is rather certain that this law will push us to improve our understanding of precisely where the rights of citizens and media will begin and end in practice.
- staticassertion 4y agoRemember when the police rioted in 2020, shooting or beating lawyers and press in the streets? First amendment doesn't mean shit to cops.
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- IIAOPSW 4y agoEven the Constitutional Originalists are not so Literalist as to interpret press as meaning literal printing presses, nor arms as black powder muskets, nor the things subject to search and seizure as being strictly the tangibles locked in ones home. IIRC there's already stacks of precedent establishing all the forms of digital media as protected free speech.