Every member of Congress has sworn to uphold the Constitution, including the right to the #FreePress. I’m introducing a bill to uphold our oath and make clear that we support liberty and free speech. WATCH LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/SenBrianSchatz/
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Or James Madison, who said that “the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”
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Or President Reagan, who said that “freedom of the press is one of our most important freedoms, and also one of our oldest.
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Or Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote that “the First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
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These words of past leaders should inspire this body to act—to send a message that we support the First Amendment, and we support the freedom of the press.
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@SenSchumer & I have introduced a resolution that does just this. It affirms that the press is not the enemy of the people. And it reaffirms the vital role the free press serves to inform the electorate, uncover truth, act as a check & advance democratic norms & freedoms.Show this thread -
This resolution also “condemns attacks on the institution of the free press and views efforts to systematically undermine the credibility of the press as a whole as an attack on our democratic institution.”
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Trump would block Thomas Jefferson if he could. He must bc Dictator or Putin will release what he knows abt Trump. No doubt there r tapes & videos. The Fear in Trump's face in Helsinki and the total control in Putin's will never be forgotten. Putin owns Trump. Protect ur Country.
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Freedom of the press is not supposed to mean the freedom to tell lies. Think about it Brian.
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Name all the lies that the press done?
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Thank you for standing up for democracy and the American people, Senator.
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Senator! Turn on CNN right this minute and you will see they are trashing the Potus. 24/7 Yeah 24/7 Thats normal to you huh? A news network devoted to 24/7 campaign to take down the President! Give me a break! It’s wrong and you know it!
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I know we have no reason to trash the 5-7 lies he and his staff tell daily . Fact checkers can’t keep up with the over flow. His ex staff is rolling over on him explain that ...before you do remember it’s on tape .
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Jefferson 2. “I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food.”
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OMG,. YOU MEAN to tell me that the SENATE, actually AGREED on something????? I'm going to faint
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The press is free to show the American people how they have been bought and paid for by the DNC! When Trump starts jailing them, then your hysteria might not be so hysterical!
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Thomas Jefferson also argued that even if the press knowingly wrote lies and published it they should be protected. Will you stand up for that freedom of speech too?
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So you Constitution haters want to eliminate the First amendment. No. My ancestors fought for this Constitution, starting with the Revolutionary War. Trumpanzees and the
#NaziInTheWhiteHouse hate our Constitution.
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