"My biggest concern...is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways”
A radically new view of the U.S. Constitution was floated by a SCOTUS justice during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri this week. Long established constitutional liberties are no longer a very intentional impediment to government overreach. Nay, those liberties are "hamstringing the government in significant ways” and are therefore a bug, not a feature.
Of course the courtroom filled with the greatest minds in U.S. jurisprudence and featuring multiple members of the Federalist Society and the ACLU immediately launched a vigorous defense of individual rights and limited government to counter Justice Jacksons flight of constitutional fancy.
Only they didn’t Not a peep from the “Originalist” justices. Maybe they were simply stunned into silence? Or maybe they were zombie bitten additions to the mass of marching morons who now control, well, everything.
I feel like the drummer from the Bonnevilles in the Irish garage punk bands video for their classic guitar driven “No Law in Lurgan".