The former “paper of record” has finally copped to the political left’s disdain for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
‘[L]iberals who once championed expansive First Amendment rights are now uneasy about them,” says a New York Times piece called “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment.”
“Many on the left have traded an absolutist commitment to free speech for one sensitive to the harms it can inflict,” the report says.
The reason for the uneasiness, according to the Times, is that Supreme Court rulings, including the Citizens United ruling, have won cases for “conservative causes” on First Amendment grounds. […]
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