You was warned. Legislative counsel said it was unconstitutional, First Amendment legal organizations said it was unconstitutional, civil liberties legal organizations said it was unconstitutional, and media organizations said it was unconstitutional. But Rep. John Kavanagh’s bill to limit the public’s ability to record police officers committing crimes and violating the civil rights of citizens … Read more
NBC News reorts, Judge blocks Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ pushed by Gov. DeSantis: Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said in a 44-page ruling that the “Stop WOKE” act violates the First Amendment and is impermissibly vague. Walker also refused to issue a stay that would keep the law in effect during any appeal by … Read more
Looks like Troll Boy, Keystone Kop John Kavanagh’s bill to prevent citizens from filming police committing crimes, like Derek Chauvin, recently sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights (Chauvin was convicted last year in a state court on murder and manslaughter charges related to Floyd’s May 2020 death and sentenced to … Read more
Update to SCOTUS Watch: An Activist Radical Republican Court Detached From The Majority Of America (excerpt): [Last] Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the first of its “major” decisions remaining on the watch list, Carson v. Makin. This case was a challenge to the constitutionality of a Maine program that pays tuition for some students to … Read more
Almost exactly two years ago I posted, SCOTUS tears down a section of the wall of separation of church and state (excerpt): Founding Father James Madison must be turning over in his grave today. James Madison was the chief author of the Bill of Rights and thus of the First Amendment. He was the foremost champion of … Read more