Thursday, May 12, 2022

The hypocrisy chronicles: Republicans are against free speech against themselves, but for it against others

The Republican governors of Virginia and Maryland, where the homes of Supreme Court justices have become the targets of protests, are demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland enforce a federal law that forbids demonstrations intended to sway judges on pending cases.

Demonstrators have gathered over the past week at the homes of several conservative justices, spurred by the leak of a draft opinion suggesting that the high court is preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision guaranteeing access to abortion nationwide.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote to Garland (D) on Wednesday, just days after some conservatives faulted Youngkin for not having protesters outside the Alexandria, Va., home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. arrested under a state statute prohibiting demonstrations at private residences.

“There’s no changing their minds. We’re expressing our fury, our rage,” said Donna Damico, a 70-year-old grandmother who protested outside Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Montgomery County, Md., home last week. “We’re impotent and this is really all we got other than praying that people vote in November.”


A hanger symbolizing unsafe illegal abortions was drawn in chalk outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh over the weekend as abortion rights activists protested in Chevy Chase, Md.

Lots of snotty rich people live in Chevy Chase
Brett and his colleagues are not one of us, they are one of them


Good old Republican politicians. They love and support free speech and slanders used against their enemies. They hate and shut it down it when it is directed at them (e.g., this). Republican elites are fucking shameless, spineless free speech* hypocrites.
 
* And most everything else. Some of 'em are wife beaters too.


Questions: Are Republican elites free speech hypocrites? Whaddabout the rank and file?

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