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American Thinker has a review of his column here:
Blog Senate Dems seek to rewrite First Amendment
Essentially, Reid wants to overturn the SCOTUS ruling on Citizen United. CU would allow the government to censor books, pamphlets, movies...the free speech of individuals speaking out against incumbent candidates....
Remember this:
"In her 1993 article "Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V," for the University of Chicago Law Review, Kagan writes:
"I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that
certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the
uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation."
In a 1996 paper, "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine,"
Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government.
That paper asserted First Amendment doctrine is comprised of "motives and ... actions infested with them" and she goes so far as to claim that "First Amendment law is best understood and most readily explained as a kind of motive-hunting."
Kagan's name was also on a brief, United States V. Stevens, dug up by the Washington Examiner, stating: "
Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs."
If the government doesn't like what you say, Elena Kagan believes
it is the duty of courts to tell you to shut up. If some pantywaist is offended by what you say, Elena Kagan believes your words can be "disappeared".
WyBlog -- Elena Kagan's America: some speech can be "disappeared"
The Daley Gator Elena Kagan Radical anti-gun nut
The Leftists on this board don't realize that a vote for any Liberal/Demcrat/Progressive is an endorsement of the suggestions Kagan makes, that free speech can be censored.