Comments on: Free speech roundup

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:56:36 +0000

I’d love to meet the constituent who was the motivation behind bill H.3719. I’ll bet she’s a real b*tch!

By: No Name Guy

No Name Guy — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:04:29 +0000

I for one intend to ask Rep Hunt to file a bill that will require legislators who file obviously unconstitutional bills to be immediately tarred, feathered and drummed out of the legislature.

Given my proposal, I for one look forward to him following through on his statement “Any time a constituent approaches me with something that is of concern to them, I follow through with it,” he said. “In this instance, someone asked me to file a bill that they deemed was important and I thought it was a good exercise to let that bill go through the process.”

/snark

By: gasman

gasman — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:13:34 +0000

In reply to SPO. Not certain the abode argument holds water. Most of the 'white house' is clearly official office space, like the west wing, and the areas of the house toured routinely by the public. And it is after all public housing he's in.

By: SPO

SPO — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:56:52 +0000

The President has free speech rights too–one of which is to decline to speak to any reporter. WH access is a trickier matter—my sense is that the President has the right to decline access since it is a place of his abode. Obviously, harsh criticism of the press is totally OK.

Whatever one thinks of President Trump, it is painfully obvious that the MSM is completely biased against him, and the news coverage reflects that. In a democracy, he has the right to fight back on a personal level, and there are some levers of government he controls, e.g., access to AF 1.