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Courtney Barnett + Kurt Vile: "Continental Breakfast"

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Bubblehead II10/11/2017 7:33:38 am PDT

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹

Prohibiting negative reporting on Donald Trump would be a violation of the I Amendment’s speech and press clauses.

If the FCC was to go there, it would be instant lawsuits against the FCC for violations of Constitutional rights from just about every civil libertarian group (and political party) in the nation.

The logical extension of “you can’t say anything about me” is “your political party can’t say anything about me,” “your Website can’t say anything about me,” “your newspaper can’t say anything about me.”

If such a monstrous regulation was somehow promulgated and upheld, that would be the end of Constitutional rule in the country.

You know that and I know that, but so far it doesn’t seem to have penetrated this administrations head. His immigration/travel ban has been declared unconstitutional how may times? He just has his people tweak it a bit and then reissues it for another round of lawsuits. As I stated above, this administration truly believes the rules do not apply to them.