Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joined other conservatives in condemning Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson over her shocking comments on Monday about the First Amendment.
During a case about government officials working with social media companies to censor speech on certain topics, Jackson appeared to justify the censorship. She said:
“And so I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country, and you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information…
“So can you help me? Because I’m really – I’m really worried about that because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”
KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”
That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights. pic.twitter.com/gWMCaHDG1W
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) March 18, 2024
Jackson’s comments prompted outrage on social media, with many pointing out that the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to do exactly that – prevent the federal government from censoring Americans’ right to free speech.
Ramaswamy dived in to the case, and posted a video message on X, with a serious warning about what is actually going on.
“The government cannot deputize internet companies to censor constitutionally protected speech, yet it’s happened regularly over the last 5 years. That’s a cardinal constitutional sin. The MSM did an awful job of distilling yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments. Here’s what’s actually going on,” he wrote.
WATCH BELOW:
The government cannot deputize internet companies to censor constitutionally protected speech, yet it’s happened regularly over the last 5 years. That’s a cardinal constitutional sin. The MSM did an awful job of distilling yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments. Here’s what’s… pic.twitter.com/RlbNlgJwGz
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 20, 2024
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