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Obama Regime Versus Free Speech

Aside from golf and separate vacations, there is not much the Obama regime actually likes, and a free press is not like a separate vacation, from Daily Caller [1]:

A reporter has been detained by Capitol Hill police for trying to ask a question of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy.

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[Ari] Natter was detained while covering the American Council On Renewable Energy conference, where McCarthy spoke. Also speaking at the conference was Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a staunch supporter of green energy who regularly takes the Senate floor to sound the alarm on global warming.

Hat tip and reax, Karen, Lonely Conservative [2]:

He was then held by Capitol police until they verified that he had press credentials. Who knows what they would have done if he didn’t pass the background check.

Evidently the self-proclaimed professor of constitutional law has trouble understanding the actual Constitution, First Amendment [3]:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

It is the People, and not merely agents selected by the state, who have the right of free speech.  The right of free speech is presumed to be granted by God and as such it is beyond the power of the state to license.