Overall: Another FTZ with yet another disposable travesty headline floating summary elimination of traditional civil liberties to make it impossible to defend against N fronts legally or media-wise.
The current environment is enabling and permitting this kind of chaos in various domains:
Trad and social media: Owned by partisan shills, skewing algorithms for maximum profits, and massive merger consolidations forming monopolies that were previously illegal.
Government - executive - leadership / law enforcement: "Feds want" when the Feds don't understand how 1a works is a problem beyond the obvious other ones. The problem here is when there is a lack of meaningfully-independent law enforcement and prosecution service at the highest level, causing paths of appeal to a reliable higher authority in legal and police matters seems far more closed than they've ever been.
Government - legislative: Weak, corrupt Congress not pushing back effectively or getting much of anything done. The House has very little legislative power in modern times apart from a few special powers because the Senate wields the filibuster and tiny states have disproportionate power. Tiny state Senate seats are also easier to flip by buying up TV and radio stations, tailored disinformation campaigns, and advertising.
Government - judiciary:
Recently, Judge Jerry E. Smith on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals launched into a tirade of antisemitic dog whistles ("George Soros" 17x) and personal attacks unbecoming of a professional, ethical jurist in the dissent of the Texas unscheduled racist gerrymandering reversal that's likely going up on appeal to SCOTUS for them put their 6 partisan hack thumbs on the scale. [0]
Anyhow, I guess Spam Blondi and co. need to see and hear a big print picture comic book adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 story hour on the steps of the Capitol or the JEH building given their apparent lack of understanding of 1a.
The current environment is enabling and permitting this kind of chaos in various domains:
Trad and social media: Owned by partisan shills, skewing algorithms for maximum profits, and massive merger consolidations forming monopolies that were previously illegal.
Government - executive - leadership / law enforcement: "Feds want" when the Feds don't understand how 1a works is a problem beyond the obvious other ones. The problem here is when there is a lack of meaningfully-independent law enforcement and prosecution service at the highest level, causing paths of appeal to a reliable higher authority in legal and police matters seems far more closed than they've ever been.
Government - legislative: Weak, corrupt Congress not pushing back effectively or getting much of anything done. The House has very little legislative power in modern times apart from a few special powers because the Senate wields the filibuster and tiny states have disproportionate power. Tiny state Senate seats are also easier to flip by buying up TV and radio stations, tailored disinformation campaigns, and advertising.
Government - judiciary:
Recently, Judge Jerry E. Smith on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals launched into a tirade of antisemitic dog whistles ("George Soros" 17x) and personal attacks unbecoming of a professional, ethical jurist in the dissent of the Texas unscheduled racist gerrymandering reversal that's likely going up on appeal to SCOTUS for them put their 6 partisan hack thumbs on the scale. [0]
Anyhow, I guess Spam Blondi and co. need to see and hear a big print picture comic book adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 story hour on the steps of the Capitol or the JEH building given their apparent lack of understanding of 1a.
0. PDF https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts....