Free speech means I don't have to be nice to Devin Nunes on Twitter. So why's he suing me? via LizMair, USATODAY
Last month, Rep. Devin Nunes announced plans to sue Twitter, me and two parody Twitter accounts for several purported torts — fancy lawyer speak for “unlawful” actions as a matter of civil law.
James Madison, fourth president of the United States, father of the Constitution and co-author of the Federalist Papers, famously commented that “the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.” Nunes’ lawsuit flips that notion entirely on its head.
Pamphleteers during the colonial period were obviously highly critical of an undemocratic, illiberal, monarchical system against which those fighting Great Britain in the War of Independence rightly rebelled. They literally risked their lives and the vastly more limited liberty they had then to deliver the American republic, and champion the justifiably broad and expansive liberties that too many of us now take for granted and which some people are seeking to sharply curtail and constrain.
This is why Americans should scrutinize our public officials’ political committee expenditures — including those of leadership PACs — voting records, public statements, financial interests, behavior and conduct. It’s what the Framers wanted, it is what the First Amendment guarantees a right to do, and it is sound policy to boot.
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