{"id":28508,"date":"2016-06-14T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28508"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:54:29","slug":"its-time-to-elect-people-who-have-read-the-u-s-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28508","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time To Elect People Who Have Read The U.S. Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article quoting a letter written by nineteen California<\/a> legislators to the state attorney general.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

California congressmen wrote a letter to state attorney general Kamala Harris<\/a> claiming the freedom of speech \u201cis not designed to protect fraud and deceit\u201d of the likes being spread by oil company ExxonMobil<\/a> about global warming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nineteen Democratic<\/a> lawmakers told Harris her \u201cinvestigation as to whether ExxonMobil lied about the truth of climate change and misled investors does not constitute an effort to silence speech or scientific research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Amendment<\/a> protects freedom of speech, but it does not protect companies from defrauding the American people<\/a> or improperly disclosing information to their shareholders,\u201d lawmakers, including California Reps<\/a>. Maxine Waters<\/a> and Ted Lieu<\/a>, wrote to Harris<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So these legislators want the attorney general to decide which speech is protected. Evidently they believe that only some speech is protected by the First Amendment. I think I have heard this story before in Animal Farm<\/span> where all animals were equal, but some animals were more equal than others.<\/p>\n

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