Dr. Joy Harden-Bradford

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It would take either an amendment to the Constitution or a very serious change in Supreme Court jurisprudence to make flag burning illegal.

Yeah, very much.

purging not just individuals, but whole agencies that the administration feels are insufficiently aligned with its priority.

Antifa is the rationale, but not the reality.

So one of the interesting issues here is that a significant group of the people who really need to be very worried are people who work in the nonprofit sector in extremely normal and liberal community advocacy organizations and NGOs.

Who are being attacked, whose funding is being attacked, who are primarily, I would say, at risk, not because they have engaged in anything approaching unlawful conduct.

And one of those groups is posters, like including boomers who are on Facebook and Twitter making jokes about how the right is so hypocritical.

And those people are getting targeted.

And I would just gently remind everyone that the First Amendment does still exist and that the solution to repression is not self-censorship, but courage.

We're all handing around the same stack of 20 singles to each other.

He was raising money to build the wall, but not using it for that purpose, which is wire fraud, right?

Yeah, like the fact that the president said Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization just doesn't really change the legal landscape.

I think given that previous efforts to restrict gun ownership on the basis of previously diagnosed mental illness have not been super successful, I don't know that this one will be either.

But again, this is an issue of power and less an issue of law or logical, coherent legal philosophy.

If you are approached by law enforcement, remember that the Fifth Amendment protects your right not to speak to them.

You have no obligation to speak to law enforcement.

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