Is House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene protected by the 1st Amendment?
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Are Marjorie Taylor Greene's Qanon assertions covered by the 1st Amendment? Is Congress exempt from the 1st Amendment, House Managers think so.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate everything that Marjorie Taylor Green stands for. |
| 0:05.9 | I hate every one of the statements she's made, but the question remains, did the democratic |
| 0:12.7 | majority in the House have the constitutional authority to strip her of her committee |
| 0:19.0 | membership because of statements that were constitutionally protected? |
| 0:25.4 | You'll hear both sides of that argument on the Dershow. |
| 0:32.7 | As anybody who's listened to the Dershow knows, or has anybody who's listened to me for |
| 0:36.4 | the last 65 years now, I'm as close to an absolutist on the First Amendment as anybody |
| 0:42.0 | can get. |
| 0:43.0 | I strongly believe that the First Amendment protects virtually all speech now. |
| 0:48.5 | Of course it doesn't protect extortion, it doesn't protect defamation if it's deliberate |
| 0:54.3 | and willful. |
| 0:55.3 | There are exceptions, but when it comes to political speech and when it comes to scientific |
| 1:00.0 | speech, the earth is flat, sure, say it. |
| 1:02.9 | The Holocaust didn't happen, outrageous, despicable, say it, I'll answer. |
| 1:07.8 | So I'm very, very strong on freedom of speech. |
| 1:11.5 | And I've been saying that on the Dershow, the president's speech in the capital, I didn't |
| 1:17.3 | like it. |
| 1:18.3 | I thought it was wrong. |
| 1:19.3 | I thought it was outrageous. |
| 1:20.3 | I don't think president should be making speeches like that perfectly protected by the |
| 1:25.0 | Constitution. |
| 1:26.2 | I support the First Amendment. |
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