Donald Trump's Lawyers Say That False Statements Are Free Speech
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-lawyers-false-statements-free-speech-1846467
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@uspolitics Quite a lot of criminals across America are on the edges of their seats to see how this goes. If he wins it means that people can order illegal activities, thefts, even assassinations and just tell the police "I was just exercising my free speech" as long as they don't do it themselves.
@nazokiyoubinbou @uspolitics That precedent was set long ago in Brandenburg v Ohio.
In this case, it's really just a question of whether the prosecution can meet the high legal standard defined by that precedent.
@nazokiyoubinbou @uspolitics And many people are crazy. It's a fine line between punishing true incitement and punishing someone for the unintended actions of others.
@LouisIngenthron @uspolitics Well, I don't know the names of cases or precedents or etc, but I have to quote the Wikipedia article on that one:
"Lyrissa Lidsky, a scholar of the law, stated that 'Brandenburg's sanguine attitude toward the prospect of violence rests on an assumption about the audiences of radical speech. Brandenburg assumes that most citizens ... simply are not susceptible to impassioned calls to violent action by radical speakers.'"
As we know, many people are indeed susceptible