Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trump, Kimmel and the upside of ignoring big-government coercion
Progressives untroubled when the Biden administration was throwing its weight around might be having an epiphany.
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In an1892 case concerning a police officer’s First Amendment challenge to a law proscribing political activity by officers, a justice on Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court wrote: The officer “may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.” First Amendment protections of government employees and everyone else have expanded sinceOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote that pithy formulation 10 years before beginning 29 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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