Saturday, September 20, 2025

GET ME REWRITE: Wyoming GOP U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis poised to put a torch to the First Amendment

 
HeadlineAlterNet, 9/19/2025

Carl Gibson reports:
Semafor recently reported that Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) is adjusting her attitude toward the First Amendment (which guarantees freedoms of speech, press, assembly, religion and petition) in the wake of the murder of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk last week. Lummis said Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr was justified in threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations that continued to air late night host Jimmy Kimmel's show (after Kimmel's Monday night monologue accusing "the MAGA gang" of trying to "score political points" from Kirk's death).

Which, of course, is exactly what the GOP is doing.

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No friend to the environment.  (9/30/2015)


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