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mr_lebowski

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8. I wasn't the one promoting a 1st Amendment argument on this issue :)
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 12:38 PM
Mar 2019

Not sure how the 1st really applies. Obviously there's all kinds of exceptions carved into our 1A rights ... people acting in their professional capacities/at work have all kinds of restrictions on 'what they can say legally' placed upon them. I don't think you could reasonably argue 'you can't make Doctors say this' ... based on the 1A, basically. Which is what I thought you were arguing from the start as well

In many ways it'd be fundamentally similar to a cop arguing he doesn't have to read anyone their Miranda Rights "Because 1st Amendment!". Yeah ... no.

That said, States cannot violate the 1A any more than the Feds can, as described in the document I shared in my last post. That was my main point from the start.

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