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“He didn’t shotgun a beer, crunch the can against his head, rip his robe off, and scream ‘First Amendment forever, motherfuckers!’ But that was the vibe.”
Corbin Barthold at The Daily Beast has a good piece on Brett Kavanaugh’s role at yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments: the only one in the room (besides NetChoice’s own lawyer) treating government censorship as a unique and serious concern.
Kavanaugh called the states out for trying to turn the First Amendment upside down. “In your opening remarks,” he told Florida’s solicitor general, “you said the design of the First Amendment is to prevent ‘suppression of speech.’ And you left out…three words…, by the government.”
God Help Us, but Brett Kavanaugh Could Save the First Amendment
[The Daily Beast]
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