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Re:It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott by nerdponx on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:09PM (#33758930)
Do citizens have a right to enter into business contracts with their state government? They might, but that's for the Supreme Court to decide.
Re:It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott by semiquaver on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:22AM (#33760862)
This is a silly and reductive lens that libertarians often apply. Look at the specific examples cited in the article:

    > the Arkansas Times [...] was asked to sign [a no-boycott certification] in order to renew its advertising contract with a state technical college.
    > A teacher in Kansas was told that she could not participate in the state’s teacher-training program because she refused to sign the anti-boycott form
    > A lawyer in Arizona was told that he could not be paid for his work on behalf of incarcerated people because he refused to sign the certification
    > a child speech pathologist in Texas lost her contract with a local school district because she refused to sign.
    > One town in Texas even briefly required victims of Hurricane Harvey to sign the anti-boycott certification as a condition of receiving disaster relief funds.
It's a grotesque distortion to frame this case as involving the rights of citizens to contract with their state government and I'm certain you know it.
Re:It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott by mkoubaa on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:35PM (#33764764)
I'm sure most people who support these laws would think differently if as a matter of policy a state fired all state contractors (teachers accountants and firefighters, you name it) that were pro life