US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amendment Rights

Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by monocasa on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:43AM (#22139191)

Can you cite what case law backs up that reading?

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by chapium on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:25AM (#22139625)

Here is an example paper: https://www.krusch.com/real/14th.html

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by monocasa on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:24PM (#22140371)

None of that really applies to this situation. It was that originally it wasn't clear if the 1st amendment applied to state governments as well, but the interpretations of that pre 14th amendment were that the state governments could restrict what the first amendment guarantees, and post 14th amendment state governments can't restrict the 1st amendment for citizens.

Assange is being charged with civilian, federal charges, so the citizens only interpretation doesn't really apply.

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