Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz failed to meet expectations during Tuesday’s Vice Presidential Debate. He also doubled down on a Harris policy position that, if enacted, would radically affect Americans.
While it’s no secret Democrats have become increasingly totalitarian in their views on what should be considered protected free speech, Walz solidified the Harris campaign’s position on the matter while trying to pull a “gotcha” moment on vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance at Tuesday’s debate.
During a back and forth about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Walz told Vance: “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s the test, that’s the Supreme Court test.” Walz’s mischaracterization of the 1919 U.S. Supreme Court opinion from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States is not only blatantly wrong but a terrifying look into the Harris campaign’s views on the First Amendment in America.
Tim Walz doubled down on his statement that the First Amendment is not absolute, says he’d criminalize “hate speech,” whatever that means.
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— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) October 2, 2024
Holmes’s opinion was that “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” The word “falsely” is an important context that Walz left out of his deranged rant. In fact, if someone truly believed a fire was breaking out in a crowded theater, whether real or not, they have a Constitutionally........