Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.
Curious they’re suing the NYTimes instead of the various interviewees.
Off-topic comment. I read this article, but read it in a couple different sessions due to interruptions, and had apparently clicked on to other pages. I wanted to comment about how US culture is unreasonably hard on young people (in general), and for all the US talk of freedom, is often restrictive, especially so for minors. Unfortunately, finding this article page was rather difficult. A browser addon called “What we say” had 4 links from the article back to Lemmy discussion, but they were mostly to a federated instance called “Division by zero”. So I tried the button labeled “Find in my home instance”, but it refused to work, which could be due to my own browser’s configuration (it has worked on other articles and instances). So I came back to lemmy.world, and had to scroll manually through several pages, using browser search to find the article. It’d be nice if there was a more direct method of finding a Lemmy discussion from a non-Lemmy webpage.
Can’t wait to read the governor candidates responses to this.
This morning I watched a video posted on Lemmy about a guy getting a ticket for smoking cannabis in public, I believe in Hollywood. Yet, the GOP congress refuses to “ticket” Trump for his war on Iran. We have a massive difference in how laws are implemented and to whom they are applied. Why would extinction of this inequality be a bad thing?
I’d rather have Nationalized Health Care and more social services in general. The more military and defenses the US builds, the more they need, while the quality of life of the masses decreases. In the 1950s, if a US citizen had a high school degree and a job, they could get a mortgage and buy a house. Those days are long gone. Maybe the solution is spending less on the military and defenses so we can concentrate on raising the standard of living of the masses? If not, then just what are they trying so hard to save? Lifestyles of the rich and famous?
California’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) grudgingly picked him for governor.
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The plutocrats’ war on the poor. Make America Great Again?
How is any citizen supposed to follow the laws of two different countries?
Chan says Hong Kongers, some who are Canadian citizens, have faced surveillance, intimidation and pressure directed at themselves and their families by Chinese authorities. He wants to see if the text of the MOU contains oversight mechanisms to limit the reach of China’s security apparatus.
Trump doing the bidding of ultra-rich plutocrats, thus he remains.
According to the story, they figured it out after they’d put him in a vehicle and were going somewhere.
Per the article, Roberts said,
“I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he told a conference of lawyers and judges in Pennsylvania. “We’re not simply part of the political process.”
Shouldn’t he have said We’re simply not part of the political process.?
This is called plutocracy. The year 1973 is mentioned in the article as marking the beginning of this plutocratic takeover. That was the year in the US when rising real-estate property values began an acceleration. In the 1950s, if you had a job after high school, you could afford to buy a house.
It’s a feature, not a bug?
I gave up TV somewhere around 2011, so wasn’t aware of “Vought International” of The Boys. Sorry.
Isn’t it interesting we don’t read much about him in the news? Author of a section of Project 2025, and director of the US Office of Management and Budget. “Follow the money”?
Reminds of the New Testament and Jesus Christ. Preach the New Testament, practice the Old Testament. Same as it ever was.
Can we get back to talking about Epstein?
I’m not in Texas, but was leaving Costco a few days ago, and on the busy street corner adjoining their parking lot there was a guy with a sign that said something like “God hates transgender” and “transgender is evil” and on his sign was a cross. I’ve been thinking about it for a few days and realized there was no “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”