Wow! Barrett doesn't know the 5 freedoms of 1st Amendment.

[imanamerican63]

She is a judicial scholar?

[Baitball Blogger]

1. She missed the right to protest and I believe one more.

[IcyPeas]

2. her and sasse are almost flirting

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I dred what those late nights at the Supreme Court offices are going to look like

with a predator like Kavanaugh roaming the halls. Or, if they find themselves at one of those parties where there's a lot of alcohol flowing. Not saying that Barrett would welcome his advances. Just that I would be surprised if he doesn't resort to his old ways.

What would you expect from conservative judges who know they don't belong there, positioned on a Supreme Court that doesn't provide them with ethical rules to follow?

[Grasswire2]

6. yeah, and she seems unsophisticated about the wily ways of men like that. nt

[lettucebe]

24. I predict a Kavanaugh - Covid Barret affair. Just sayin

[Dan]

25. Well, I hope they have video.

[LuvNewcastle]

27. Or a Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Barrett love triangle.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Religion, speech, the press, assembly, petition government.

Duh.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Petition government? Would that be the same to right to protest?

[FBaggins]

9. Protests are more closely aligned with freedom of assembly

But there's some overlap there.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. It's specifically about petitions.

[unblock]

11. Protests are more speech and assembly. Petition is mostly suing the government.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Thank you.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. Also lobbying the government

From Wiki:

According to the Congressional Research Service, since the Constitution was written,[3]

the right of petition has expanded. It is no longer confined to demands for “a redress of grievances,” in any accurate meaning of these words, but comprehends demands for an exercise by the government of its powers in furtherance of the interest and prosperity of the petitioners and of their views on politically contentious matters. The right extends to the "approach of citizens or groups of them to administrative agencies (which are both creatures of the legislature, and arms of the executive) and to courts, the third branch of Government. Certainly the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government. The right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition."

[unblock]

18. Yes indeed.

I got lazy and just said "mostly", which probably doesn't even get the proportion right. Thanks for filling in the gap!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. It's included. The specific wording is "petition the government for redress of grievances."

The right to assembly and the right to free speech could also be included in the right to protest. "Petitioning" is also going to the courts.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Yes she does: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

[unblock]

8. Thread winner!

[ornotna]

15. Yes, but...

Man is always ahead of woman in her world.

[Laelth]

12. Six.

1) freedom of speech
2) freedom of the press
3) freedom of religion
4) freedom FROM religion (no state religion allowed)
5) freedom of assembly (and association—the state can’t tell you who you cannot associate with, nor can it tell you who you MUST associate with)
6) right to seek redress of grievances from the government (i.e. ACCESS TO THE COURTS)

Admittedly, this is a tough question, and very few Americans know the correct answer, but I would prefer it if our SCOTUS Judges could answer this question.

-Laelth

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Scotus Judges should know the answer.

Especially someone who claims to be a constitutional strict constructionist.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Judges? Ptooey, it's first-year law school stuff.

A federal judge should be able to rattle those items off faster than a law student.

[Laelth]

21. I would hope so.

Barrett is unquestionably unfit. Not sure how she managed to get a job teaching law at Notre Dame, but her own colleagues wrote a letter saying that she should not be a SCOTUS judge. That should be a hint.



-Laelth

[meadowlander]

33. I'm not a lawyer

but could guess four of them based on a ninth grade civics class I took thirty years ago and watching the news a couple times a week.

What rock did they find her under?

[RobinA]

35. Of Course,

freedom of the press refers only to printed press, as they didn't have anything digital back in the day.

Just trying to keep up with originalist thinking...

[Laelth]

39. It's an oral vs. written distinction.

Freedom of speech is the rule (including digital, oral communication). Orally publishing damaging lies about others (slander) is an exception.

Also, freedom of the press is the rule (including digital, written communication). Written publication of damaging lies about others (libel) is an exception.

Naturally, no constitutional right is absolute. There are exceptions to all of them.

We’re not allowed to own nuclear weapons, for example, despite our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.

-Laelth

[JCMach1]

16. Talibornagain

[lagomorph777]

22. Freedom schmeedom. She has one mission: to keep Turd out of jail and in the White House forever.

[Blue Owl]

23. The Handmaid's Fail

n/t

[Luciferous]

34. 😂

[Faygo Kid]

26. I know them, and I'm a 1985 law school grad!

Long time ago, but even I and my peers know this. She cares nothing for these essential rights. I won the Book Award for Constitutional Law as best in my class, and as bright as she is, she is a captive of the dead hand of an 18th century interpretation of the Constitution. Stop her.

[IronLionZion]

28. You'd think she would know religion at least

Many conservatives believe in the myth of state-established religion as long as they can screw over someone else out of their freedoms.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[keithbvadu2]

32. What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?

What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

[keithbvadu2]

36. In charge?

[IronLionZion]

38. Pilgrims fled England to seek religious freedom

because they didn't want an established state religion in America.

Fundies love that the words "separation of church and state" don't appear in the constitution. It was in Thomas Jefferson's letters explaining the intent of the religion clause in the first amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

[keithbvadu2]

40. Sounds kinda like 'originalism', eh?

Sounds kinda like 'originalism', eh?

[IronLionZion]

41. Sounds like we should separate church and state

neither one should control the other

[DallasNE]

29. Yesterday She Thought

A question of law against voter intimidation at the polls was a hypothetical question, not knowing that a law had been on the books for decades. She is coming across as a real lightweight.

[Captain Zero]

31. She definitely needs to hire good clerks

Cause she appears to know SQUAT.
Fat Tony must have hired her as eye candy.

[NoMoreRepugs]

30. Wanna bet Notorious RBG knew the answer??? RIP sweet lady RIP.

[AllaN01Bear]

37. this mam.

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/learning-material/first-amendment