No, “he” (Hawley) won’t see “you” (S&S) in court. This is a contract issue. Hawley knows that. The publisher exercised their right (under the contract, not the Constitution) to cancel. EOD. Hawley is lowering himself further and trying to save face as S&S tells him he’s radioactive. Which he is, and probably nothing he can do about it.It’s not just that a private company cannot engage in an “assault on the First Amendment”; it’s that Hawley’s constitutional objections to Biden’s Arizona and Pennsylvania electors are marked by the same kind of superficial and incorrect assertions about constitutional law. https://t.co/t5wd9ZbevN
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 8, 2021
oh my goodness who could have ever foreseen this it's so shocking to think that this could happen I wish people had warned them https://t.co/L11pksXCOl pic.twitter.com/Ro3vCj64B4
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 8, 2021
Yeah, that’s the star Hawley has hitched his wagon to. ETTD. It’s like a law of nature.This quote:
— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) January 8, 2021
“Trump is a political David Koresh,” said Billy Piper, a former chief of staff to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell https://t.co/ASirotyr6T
I mean, even Axe body spray. And in case you’re thinking Hawley just made a bad last minute decision:In which AXE body spray is more devoted to the Constitution than the congressional Republican caucus. https://t.co/mO0w9TqZ8j
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 8, 2021
It’d be like a Greek tragedy; if Hawley was anything like a tragic hero; or even just sympathetic.The timeline is remarkable. When momentum was building @HawleyMO and @tedcruz tried to make themselves poster boys for Trump's coup. Then just after they signed on the call was released. Then the Georgia defeats. Then Trump's insurrection. But they'd already made their choice.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 8, 2021
See?David Humphreys, who along w/his family have donated $6 million to @HawleyMO over the years, said the senator has "now revealed himself as a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold."https://t.co/Z7nXncdhgT #moleg
— Jason Hancock (@J_Hancock) January 8, 2021
Stanford, Harvard and Oxford must be proud of him. John Roberts, too.
ReplyDeleteHow much of a tell is it that the foremost whiners about violations of "The First Amendment" are the fascists and vulgar opportunists like Hawley. That entire civil liberties campaign was badly thought out.