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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: Justice Jackson Gets the First Amendment Wrong
Description: George Orwell once wrote, “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of [the intelligent].” Keep that in mind when you hear Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in oral arguments this past Monday. The case was about the government censoring and coercing social media stories ranging from Hunter Biden’s laptop to Covid policies. Justice Jackson said to the plaintiffs, “Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods.” Earth to Justice Jackson: That’s what the First...