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Pamela Geller Sues Bill de Blasio for Forbidding New Yorkers to Protest during COVID-19

The petty tyrant Warren Wilhelm (that’s Bill de Blasio’s real name) who is currently mayor of New York City, not content with scapegoating Jews for the spread of the coronavirus, has now gone to war against the First Amendment.  Fox News reported Wednesday that de Blasio and his NYPD commissioner, Dermot Shea, “stated outright this week that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic.”  Apparently, Mayor Wilhelm thinks he is in 1930s Berlin.  But this will not stand.  On Thursday, I filed suit against de Blasio and Shea for violating my First Amendment right to freedom of assembly.

De Blasio and Shea adopted their breathtaking authoritarian measure in full knowledge that they were violating the United States Constitution.  “You’re talking about some of the values we hold in the highest regard in this country and certainly in this city, the right for people to gather, the right to free speech and the right to protest,” Shea said Monday.” […]

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