@LauraLoomer There is no base. We were disenfranchised more than a year ago. The only Trump supporters that are left either killed Jesus or deflowered children.
@MylesCl10615236@casey_whalen@RogueLou18 Finally there is Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (https://t.co/cVt7tuW4tH.,2003) that simply affirmed, based on the aforementioned cases, that it is WELL SETTLED that the First Amendment affords protection to symbolic or expressive conduct as well as to actual speech
Fifth was City of Erie #2 in which the Court held that if government purpose in regulating expression is unrelated to suppression of expression, then the regulation need only satisfy “less stringent” O’Brien standard, but if government interest is related to content of expression, then regulation must be justified under more demanding standard.
Fourth was City of Erie v. Pap’s A.M., 529 U.S. 277 (https://t.co/MqGnWlm9m1., 2000) where the Court applied the O’Brien standard for evaluating restrictions on symbolic speech, which requires the court to inquire as follows: (1) whether government regulation is within constitutional power of government to enact; (2) whether regulation furthers important or substantial government interests; (3) whether government interest is unrelated to suppression of free expression; and (4) whether restriction is no greater than is essential to furtherance of government interest.
Third was Clark v. Community of Creative Non-Violence,468 U.S. 288 (U.S., 1984). In that case, CCNV was given a permit to erect two symbolic tent cities in a national park to bring attention to homelessness but were not allowed to sleep in them because the tent cities were located outside designated “camping” areas.
Here the Court held that “[e]xpression, whether oral or written or symbolized by conduct, is subject to reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions”. Because the park service had legitimate interest in regulating overnight camping, the regulation forbidding sleeping in certain areas was defensible either as a time, place or manner restriction.
Then came Spence v. State of Wash, 418 U.S. 405 (U.S. Wash, 1974) Appellant in that case had hung a US flag outside his apartment with duck tape affixed to it in the shape of a peace sign. He was charged under a Washington statute forbidding the exhibition of a U.S. flag to which is attached or superimposed figures, symbols, or other material.
The Court held that a citizen cannot “be punished for failing to show proper respect for [a symbol]” because “[a] person gets from a symbol the meaning that he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn.”
The Courts’ symbolic speech cases start with Tinker v. Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 (U.S.Iowa 1969). Tinker (a school girl) was expelled from school for wearing a black arm band in protest of the Vietnam War. The court affirmed that “wearing an armband for the purpose of expressing certain types of views is the type of symbolic act that is within the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.” The Court further reasoned that it was “akin to ‘pure speech’”
@MeatEaterTV Here are some issues that the one-sided panel did not discuss (please note that I remain Pro-meateater and still utilize my meateater cookbook regardless of our disagreement on this narrow issue):
https://t.co/AMImczbFnB
@MeatEaterTV He would also help resolve discrepancies under the Equal Footing Doctrine which was not discussed when the proposition was raised that Utah “gave up” its title to unappropriated lands when it entered the Union
Having listened to the full podcast and the meateater crew brutalizing the language of the Enclave Clause (US CONST Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 17) I recommend further discussion with Ammon Bundy; the person primarily responsible for thrusting this legal theory into national spotlight. I can connect you.
The same bureau that investigated the Las Vegas shooting and the January 6th pipe bombs is now investigating the attempted assassination of Trump.
This is also the same bureau that raided Mar-a-Lago.
I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of this soon.
The FBI says it doesn’t retaliate against whistleblowers, and treats all its employees the same. But former agents said last spring they were punished for reporting abuses. And now, more have come forward to say that FBI is firing conservatives, Christians, and Covid skeptics.