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What’s a protected First Amendment activity?
During the COVID lockdowns, church and synagogue services, and political protests (against the lockdowns, but not BLM riots) were deemed not to be protected First Amendment activities.
Free speech on the internet? Definitely, not a protected First Amendment activity when it involves “misinformation”.
But Hamas supporters blocking bridges and airports is protected First Amendment activity.
What about a prosecutor announcing that he won’t do his job?
You may remember the case of Gov. Ron DeSantis suspending Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren, a Soros DA, who pledged not to enforce the law and prosecute crimes involving abortion or transgender sexual mutilation.
Now Jill Pryor, an Obama judge, signed her name onto a ruling claiming that Warren was engaging in “protected First Amendment speech”.
.”Florida’s constitution permits the governor to suspend unimpeachable state officers for enumerated reasons, such as neglect of duty or incompetence,” Judge Pryor admits.
Then she has to perform Olympic-level acrobatics to defend Warren.
Even though, for example, Warren had signed a letter stating that he was among those “commit[ted] to exercise [their] well-settled discretion and refrain from prosecuting those who seek, provide, or support abortions”, Pryor argues wrongly that “and neither statement referred to a specific Florida law. To the contrary, the statements, which addressed national audiences, contained language inapplicable to Florida. When Warren signed the statement about bills targeting the transgender community, no Florida law criminalized gender-affirming care.”
As Pryor knows very well, these laws were incoming, Warren had committed to not enforcing them. This is jailhouse lawyering on a level embarrassing even by the miserably low standards of an Obama judge.
Pryor argues that, “the First Amendment protects Warren’s signing the transgender care and abortion statements. It prevents the government from ‘abridging the freedom of speech.'”
Government employees do have freedom of speech. Warren could have called DeSantis names and kept his job. He could have called Florida a giant toilet.
However, the free speech of government employees does not mean that they can announce that they will steal from the till every day. Even if it’s never proven that they actually stole, they can still be fired.
A government employee who announces that he is going to sexually assault children will be fired, whether or not anyone proves that he ever assaulted a child.
A statement of political opinion is not the same thing as a statement of intent to abuse your office.
An Obama judge has announced that there is a First Amendment right for government employees to announce that they won’t do their jobs… as long as she agrees with their politics.
But ordinary Americans don’t have the right to free speech on the internet or to protest against the Left.
Only leftists have rights, everyone else has none.
NAVY ET1 says
Free speech in America is basically dead, or at most on minimal life support, if one should convey their conservative thought. A Marxist member of the left is free to espouse any and all un-Constitutional trash they can dream up, for it is the ONLY speech that is currently protected.
When an elected District Attorney states categorically that he will NOT follow or adhere to state law, he of course is free to say that, much as I’m free to fly down the highway as fast as my car will go. There is a penalty, however, once caught. Perhaps DeSantis jumped the gun with Warren’s dismissal much like he did with his presidential aspirations.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Remove all Soros supporting Judges and pull America out of the United Nations
Patricia says
Remove Soros.
Sorosopenly states his goal has been to destroy America.
This anti American insurrectionist should have been banned from the US years ago.
Mickorn says
You seem to be quite free to write all your lies and misinformation. Who is violating your First Amendment rights? Whah whah whah!!!
Matt Tarango says
May the next race riot visit your house or business.
CowboyUp says
Mick has neither house nor business, so he/she/it is fine.
BLSinSC says
He could have said he disagreed with the law all he wanted – THAT was SPEECH! BUT, not doing his JOB is another thing altogether! Leave it to a segment of excrement oblama affirmative action appointee to conjure up “freedom of speech” to legitimize failure to perform one’s duties!
Margghiya says
It’s so absurd it would be funny if not true!
Anything with the name Obama tied to it is LETHAL FOR AMERICA
Time to deport Soros!
Time to disbar and sue the Soris DAs!
Time to get rid of Obama judges (a true oxymoron).!
TruthLaser says
Is every job protected on this First Amendment basis? How about a bridge or turnpike toll collector engaging in free speech by not collecting tolls or collecting tolls from some based on identity? This is how judges decide to review cases.
CowboyUp says
Only the leftist ones, so it’s entirely situational.
Nikolaos Halkides says
He’s probably living in his mother’s basement, and we don’t want anything bad to happen to her. We might challenge him to post a how-to build-a-firearm-at-home (perfectly legal) video on YouTube and see how long it lasts there before government agents there take it down.
Or we might introduce him to Robert Malone, whose original paper was the basis for mRNA vaccine technology and whose videos questioning the COVID “vaccine” were censored by YouTube. But then he might learn something, and I fear it would be too much for his poor progressive brain.
Obama's boyfriernd says
The Left’s version of free speech was last seen at the Nuremburg rallies.