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House Judiciary Impeachment Counsels: Elected Officials Don’t Have Free Speech

Democrat legal theorists have really been breaking exciting new ground this year.

So far they’ve discovered that…

1. The 25th Amendment wasn’t a response to the JFK assassination clarifying medical disability, but a way to remove presidents you don’t like via a cabinet coup.

2. That saying “fight” in a speech is incitement

3. That free speech doesn’t apply to elected officials.

This latest exciting new legal theory comes from two advisors to the last House Democrat impeachment vendetta who makes this inventive claim in an op-ed.

“Tacitly recognizing as much, some Republicans have retreated to makeshift claims that Trump cannot be impeached because his speech at the rally was protected by the First Amendment… To start, it turns the First Amendment upside down: the Free Speech Clause exists to protect private citizens from the government, not to protect government officials from accountability for their own abusive statements. The Supreme Court has held that government officials and public employees enjoy substantially reduced First Amendment protection for speech relating to the performance of their official duties.”

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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