Trump’s seditious conspiracy was planned (and blabbed about by Steve Bannon) even before he lost the 2020 election. And it continues still. Trump, his supporters, and the right wing media, have continued to claim the election was “stolen”.
The Texas and Idaho (?) legislatures have passed a resolution “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election; and we hold that acting president Joseph Robinette Biden was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
Republicans appalled by Trump’s January 6 coup attempt, like Betsy Devos, are crawling back, begging for Trump’s endorsement for their candidates. People like Mitch McConnell, who initially deplored the January 6 coup attempt, now pretend it never happened,
“You can’t cry ‘fire!’ in a crowded theatre”, frequently used to describe limits on free speech, is, according to Wikipedia, a paraphrasing of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The case was later partially overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, which limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).[1]
The paraphrasing differs from Holmes's original wording in that it typically does...
Albany, NY (WRGB) — A Poughkeepsie man who previously went to federal prison for an insurance fraud scheme is now facing new federal charges after investigators say he ran a similar operation agai...