KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights.

🚨 Happening NOW: Murthy v. Missouri—SCOTUS hears arguments on US govt collusion with social media platforms to censor online speech. A US judge has called this case "the most massive attack against free speech in United States' history." Alito: "When I see the White House and Federal officials repeatedly saying that Facebook and the Federal government should be partners... regular meetings, constant pestering... Wow, I cannot imagine Federal officials taking that approach to print media."

Kentaji Brown Jackson grills LA solicitor general, says that because the govt can occasionally censor, they can also occasionally coerce: KBJ: “Whether or not the government can do this… depends on the application of our First Amendment jurisprudence. There may be circumstances in which the government could prohibit certain speech on the internet or otherwise.”

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@HansMahncke Guess the esteemed justice missed the class explaining that our constitution limits the government not the people. Dear heavens.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She sounded like a sophomore at Brown.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t written to restrain WE THE PEOPLE It was written to RESTRAIN THE GOVERNMENT

Hamstringing the government? The government is supposed to answer to WE THE PEOPLE! It was created to serve us. Not the other way around!

The constitution was written to hamstring the government to keep them in their place to serve the people in a limited capacity and the bulk of it is about the rights of the people, and all of it was written to prevent the government from being the dictatorship it is today more like the cradle to grave government the left adores.

In my Constitutional law class, we learned that the Constitution limits the rights of the Government, not the people. I can also define the word woman. SCOTUS, we've got a problem.

That woman is just plain evil and she hates the Constitution and America. Another diversity hire.

Oh no don't hamstring the government with the constitution!

My jaw about fell on the floor when I heard her say that.