Supreme Court subverts the First Amendment
The highest court just gave law enforcement a green light to arrest critics. While the conservative media cries about free speech rights to have a YouTube channel, conservative justices undermines the actual point of 1A: the ability to criticize officials without retaliation from the government. https://www.jurist.org/news/2019/05/supreme-court-rules-for-police-officers-in-first-amendment-retaliation-claim/
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Ginsburg isn't conservative
Roberts wrote the majority opinion.
FTA: The court concluded that: โThe presence of probable cause should generally defeat a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim.โ On the specific facts of the case presented, the court held that โ[b]ecause there was probable cause to arrest Bartlett, his retaliatory arrest claim fails as a matter of law.โ It's not nearly as wide reaching or inflammatory as the title suggests.
Probable Cause is very loosely defined and gives officers a lot of leeway. โI thought I smelled weedโ is probable cause.
No it is not. Smelling marijuana is not grounds for probable cause.
This decision is horse ๐ฉ .. oh wait, I might be charged, TF.