Saturday, February 13, 2021

Trump Impeachment Lawyers Lied About The Capitol Riots

...He also falsely claimed that "the leader of 'Antifa'" was one of the first people arrested at the Capitol. No one charged to date has been described by the government as a member of antifa, let alone a leader... ... The overarching legal precedent cited by both Trump's lawyers and House impeachment managers is Brandenburg v. Ohio, a 1969 decision from the US Supreme Court. The justices at the time drew a line between advocacy speech protected by the First Amendment — including hate speech and speech advocating violence — and speech "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."...

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