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Republicans aren’t even pretending to offer a sh-t about free speech now

Editorial Board Published September 16, 2025
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The Republican Celebration’s dedication to free speech has by no means been full-throated. Slightly, their method has been extra of a “free speech for me but not for thee” form of factor at the most effective of instances. However within the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s taking pictures loss of life, even the nominal lip service conservatives give to the First Modification is wholly out the window. As an alternative, we now have just about each textbook violation of the First Modification you possibly can think about. Fortunate us. 

Associated | GOP calls for investigation to harass liberal teams after Kirk taking pictures

Effectively, how concerning the authorities conducting a wide-ranging congressional investigation into liberal teams below the pretext that they engaged in some form of coordinated assault that resulted in Kirk being murdered? Such a comically broad investigation could be absurd and abusive even when there was any proof of an enormous left-wing conspiracy. On condition that it appears like Kirk’s loss of life was by the hands of somebody who appears to have been motivated by being extraordinarily on-line and whose political philosophy, resembling it’s, is essentially incoherent.  

There’s additionally the half the place saying less-than-complimentary issues about Kirk is neither a civil nor felony problem that Congress wants to deal with. There isn’t a First Modification carveout whereby persons are not allowed to say something unfavourable about Charlie Kirk just because GOP elected officers are whipping themselves right into a frenzy. However President Donald Trump is raring to resolve who, precisely, is funding all this alleged nefarious liberal slander of Kirk. 

Everybody, together with Trump, is aware of that the reply is that there is no such thing as a coordinated spending effort behind the misguided machinations of Kirk’s alleged killer. They simply don’t care. Nevertheless, the GOP’s want to drive left-wing teams to disclose all their funding streams doesn’t actually maintain up, provided that the GOP additionally wholly embraces the Supreme Court docket’s Residents United ruling and its progeny. Cash is speech, child! Free, free speech, and you’ll’t make anybody reveal who’s paying for it. 

How about in case your employer fires you for merely flippantly paraphrasing one among Kirk’s racist rants about how Black ladies weren’t sufficiently clever sufficient to be, say, Supreme Court docket justices? That’s what occurred to columnist Karen Attiah at The Washington Submit. Effectively, there may be such a factor as at-will employment, in fact, and WaPo is a non-public employer. That stated, it certain appears just like the Submit fired its final remaining Black full-time opinion columnist for the well-known office violation of being impolite sufficient to focus on Charlie Kirk’s personal views. How dare she! 

Hmm. That one is likely to be extra of a violation of the Equal Safety Clause of the 14th Modification, if that Reconstruction-era modification remains to be even practical below the present regime. 

As out of pocket as Republicans are being on this, nobody is extra out of pocket than sitting Vice President JD Vance. On Monday, Vance took over Kirk’s present and, from the White Home, informed folks they need to name the employers of anybody they suppose isn’t being good sufficient about Charlie Kirk. In case you are considering it doesn’t appear very free speech-ish to have the second-most-powerful particular person on the earth making an attempt to whip up his supporters towards folks and get them fired for the content material of their speech, you’re appropriate—however Vance completely doesn’t care.

Usually, the federal courts is likely to be counted on to face agency towards these types of depredations by the chief department. However the courtroom seems all-in on the Trump-as-dictator mission, so there’s no cause to suppose his lackeys on the bench will rein the administration in on this—or anything, actually. It certain could be cool if the First Modification utilized to everybody within the nation, however it apparently is dependent upon your political affiliation.

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