One the most dishonest political hacks in all of fake journalism. Her entire career was spent shoring up one ruinous hack after another, from Ted Cruz, to Michelle Bachmann, to Rick Santorum, to Mike Huckabee. I’m sorry she had to die to be removed from our lives, but I am absolutely thrilled that one more morally bankrupt GOP operative is off our airwaves.
I find myself surprised that I never see any post-secondary level student "newspaper" accounts on mastodon. (Or student news websites, whatever the kids call them nowadays.)
Maybe they're here, and I just don't see them?
They couldn't possibly be on bird site, still, could they? Have they gone to somewhere else?
First amendment is given to us by our creators it says so in the us constution everyone gets it period
Neither the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any of its other amendments use the word “creator”. You’re probably thinking of the Declaration of Independence (the famous second sentence of which is “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”). The DoI predates the Constitution and its amendments by over a decade and has no force of law.
There is a strong legal argument to be made, including some historical court rulings, that at least some of the rights in the Bill of Rights do apply to non-citizens - although some of those arguments are limited to when non-citizens are on US soil (which Assange was not when he engaged in the acts of journalism which he is being prosecuted for).
Concerning any First Amendment challenge, the United States could argue that foreign nationals are not entitled to protections under the First Amendment […]
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo also wrote in his memoir Never Give An Inch:
Julian Assange has no First Amendment privileges. He is not a U.S. citizen.
Last month, the British High Court gave the US prosecutors until April 16 to submit a declaration including assurances that “the applicant is permitted to rely on the first amendment” and that he “is afforded the same first amendment protections as a United States citizen” (those are the British court’s words).
The assurance the US has now submitted did not actually repudiate the prosecutors earlier explicit statement that the “the United States could argue that foreign nationals are not entitled to protections under the First Amendment” but instead said merely that he can “seek to raise” the first amendment in his defense. But, he has already been seeking to raise the first amendment to stop his extradition, and these “assurances” that he can seek to raise it again in the US come from the same prosecutors who explicitly argued (and again, have not repudiated their argument) to the British court that he is not entitled to first amendment protection because he is a foreign national.
You didn’t answer my question: Better off than what?
Latest photo-shoot this week: screening at National Press Club of the PBS Frontline documentary "Democracy on Trial," about the Federal criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump, with discussion by producer Mike Wiser and investigative counsel Temidayo Aganga-Williams. 27 Mar. 2024.
Reports of the death of Artifact, the AI-powered news app, may have been exaggerated. While the company announced in January that it was to close the following month, it's still functioning. “It takes a lot less to run it than we had imagined,” co-founder Kevin Systrom confirmed to TechCrunch, adding that it’s just himself and co-founder Mike Krieger running Artifact right now. He told TechCrunch it will still likely go away — but not just yet, and that he and Krieger are "exploring all possible routes for it going forward." Here's more from @Sarahp
Former Vice Pres. Mike Pence on Friday announced that he will not endorse Donald Trump, alleging that his former running mate and the president he served with is pursuing a platform "at odds with the conservative agenda" they governed on for four years. FOX News (LR: 4 CP: 4)...
Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by Influential GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties (truthout.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2463555...
Google Blacklists California News Sites, Fires More Protesters [10:22 | Apr 23 2024 | The Hill] (youtu.be)
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Google firing more employees over sit-ins over its cloud computing contract with Israel....
Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene (newrepublic.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14604927...
Julian Assange: What the US “assurances” for extradition are all about (www.freitag.de)
today is the deadline for the United States to provide diplomatic assurances to the High Court of the UK prior to the next hearing on May 20
Mike Pence Refuses to Endorse Donald Trump (www.improvethenews.org)
Former Vice Pres. Mike Pence on Friday announced that he will not endorse Donald Trump, alleging that his former running mate and the president he served with is pursuing a platform "at odds with the conservative agenda" they governed on for four years. FOX News (LR: 4 CP: 4)...