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The Dershow

Is House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene protected by the 1st Amendment?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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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