Michael Haddam
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first heard Jan 2026
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If we're talking about the origins of concerns about freedom of speech or if we're talking about the rest of the First Amendment, the freedom of religion, right?
A lot of that goes back to centuries of history prior to the settlement of the colonies of religious wars throughout Europe, right?
Yeah.
where heads of state were also the heads of the churches.
And that intertwined the interests of both in ways that led to centuries of almost nonstop warfare.
And there was a real sense, I think, in the colonies and then later after the revolution of the United States being able to be a place where that doesn't happen.
Yeah.
So John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who had come over and established a print shop.
And in the early 1730s, he printed the first newspaper in New York called the New York Weekly Journal.
At the same time, there was some political conflict in the colony because the colony got a new royal governor, a man named William Cosby.
And Cosby came to New York, a place he was not happy to be, and he was determined to make the most of his time as governor financially.
And he engaged in all kinds of shenanigans in terms of – the thing that really set it off is there had been a previous acting governor who was a native-born colonist named Rip Van Damme.
And there was a provision in Cosby's instructions, his commission as governor, that he was entitled to half of the acting governor's salary that he had collected over the time of his acting governorship.
And so when Cosby came...
and tried to claim that, it set off a real factional conflict in New York.
And the case went to trial to the Supreme Court of New York, and they ruled against Cosby.
And so he then removed the chief justice and replaced him with a man named James Delancey, who would
rule and appeal in Cosby's favor, which he did.
So people were really up in arms about that.
He also interfered in elections.
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