'Arrested Oregon Protesters Told They Can No Longer Attend Protests': Unconstitutional
Daily Kos, 'Sort of hilariously unconstitutional': Arrested protesters told they can no longer attend protests. 7/28/20.
Ive spent most of the afternoon watching clips of the U.S. attorney general flouting standards of fairness and the rule of law, so this was a real pick-me-up.
It seems some detained Portland protesters are being told, as a condition of their release, that they can no longer attend protests in the state of Oregon. (I assume they could attend an anti-mask protest in Michigan while toting guns, threatening the governor, and hocking freedom phlegm all over law enforcement personnel, because the federal government doesnt care about those kinds of lawbreakers.)
ProPublica:
Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as failing to obey an order to get off a sidewalk on federal property and then tell them they cant protest anymore as a condition for release from jail.
Legal experts describe the move as a blatant violation of the constitutional right to free assembly, but at least 12 protesters arrested in recent weeks have been specifically barred from attending protests or demonstrations as they await trials on federal misdemeanor charges.
Defendant may not attend any other protests, rallies, assemblies or public gathering in the state of Oregon, states one Order Setting Conditions of Release for an accused protester, alongside other conditions such as appearing for court dates. The orders are signed by federal magistrate judges...
More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/28/1964628/--Sort-of-hilariously-unconstitutional-Arrested-protesters-told-they-can-no-longer-attend-protests
onecaliberal
(32,991 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)Repulsives only care about a couple of things in the Constitution.
Civil liberty aint one of em.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,492 posts)They care about:
1. Guns
2. Slavery--they want it back
LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)Faux pas
(14,706 posts)on a stick shoved in our faces.