{"id":109492,"date":"2021-01-16T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109492"},"modified":"2021-01-16T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:00:15","slug":"penn-lieutenant-governor-doesnt-know-how-the-first-amendment-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109492","title":{"rendered":"Penn. lieutenant governor doesn’t know how the First Amendment works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Penn Lt Gov John Fetterman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m really not sure why this fella’s official state photo looks like he’s in prison. Anyway, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Fetterman said yesterday in an interview that “lies” about the integrity of the election are not constitutionally protected speech. The First Amendment is explicitly about protecting political speech, whether that’s lies, damn lies, or statistics.<\/p>\n

From FOX News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“This idea that saying that Pennsylvania was ‘rigged’ or that we were ‘trying to steal the election,’ that’s a lie,” Fetterman told The Hill. “And you do not have the right, that is not protected speech.”<\/p>\n

Fetterman argued that tweets by President Trump echoing the false claim should have been removed by Twitter “immediately” and insisted such an action was “not de-platforming” but rather “deleting lies that are yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater when there is none.”<\/p>\n

“That is not protected speech,” Fetterman doubled down. “He can talk all day about what his favorite football team is or that he’s the greatest president in the history of the world, but no one — Republican, Democrat, or whatever — has the right to say those kind of incendiary lies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This guy must have taken constitutional law classes with Fredo “Show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful” Cuomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really not sure why this fella’s official state photo looks like he’s in prison. Anyway, … Penn. lieutenant governor doesn’t know how the First Amendment works<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109496,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109492\/revisions\/109496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}