Showing posts with label Free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free speech. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Stop the gag order. Lobbyists are protected by the First Amendment.


Free speech would be easy if it only applied to popular people saying popular things. But that's not the case. Our First Amendment protections are most urgent and fragile when they apply to the unpopular, the dissident, and the public villain of the day. Which brings me to lobbyists.