The Democrats have repeatedly attempted to use federal law to stifle the political speech of activist groups and independent parties, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly told them that they may not do this, most notably in the Citizens United case – a case that turned on the question of whether people showing a film critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton should be prosecuted as criminals for doing so.
The courts keep telling the Democrats that the first amendment exists primarily to protect political speech, but the Democrats seem to think that it’s about pornography, and keep trying to criminalize the act of criticizing politicians in unapproved-of ways.
That culminated last year in Harry Reid’s attempt to pass a constitutional amendment that would exempt political speech from First Amendment protections – which is to say, that would effectively repeal the First Amendment – an effort that received the support of every Democrat in the Senate. Mrs. Clinton makes it official: the Democrats are now an anti-First Amendment party.
National Review editorial – May 18. Emphasis added.
