re: #394 Millicent Islam

He should be punished within the free marketplace of ideas— by other people mocking him, deriding him, making his words public, refusing to vote for him.

In other words, others can express their contrary opinions and their opinions of him, all protected by the First Amendment.

Yes, precisely. The First is explicitly about limiting what the government can do to you for your speech, and this is my point in all of this. A lot of people get bent out of shape when folks invoke the First in regards to CFA and the mayors that were talking about banning the stores from their cities, but invoking it there is not a frivolous “people can say whatever they want” thing — it is specifically in reference to the government trying to say it can punish people for their views, which it explicitly cannot according to the First.