The Greatest Threat to Our Freedom of Speech Rights? – American Free Press
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Court Narrows Law Used to Target White Supremacists
Josh Gerstein, Politico, March 4, 2021
A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down portions of an anti-riot law used to target white supremacists.
Still, the ruling found enough of the law constitutional to reinstate charges against four men prosecuted under the statute.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision overturned a district court judge’s ruling in 2019 that found key sections of the Federal Anti-Riot Act violated the First Amendment by criminalizing speech that did not incite imminent lawless action.
“We recognize that the freedoms to speak and assemble which are enshrined in the First Amendment are of the utmost importance in maintaining a truly free society. Nevertheless, it would be cavalier to assert that the government and its citizens cannot act, but must sit quietly and wait until they are actually physically injured or have had their property destroyed by those who are trying to perpetrate, or cau
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‘QAnon shaman’ granted organic food in jail after report of deteriorating health
A federal judge ordered the special diet after an attorney for Jacob Chansley, who took part in the Capitol riots, said his client needed it for religious and health reasons.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, a Qanon believer, speaks to a crowd of Donald Trump supporters in Phoenix on Nov. 5, 2020. | AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered that the “QAnon shaman,” who was charged with taking part in the deadly riots at the Capitol, get organic food in a D.C. correctional facility after his lawyer told the court that his client needed the special diet for religious and health reasons.