This administration is just a bunch of "the law is what we say it is when it is convenient for us to say it is X". The constitution and actual law doesn't apply to them as far as they are concerned.
And of course that means isn't the same law for you and me.
> Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said, "Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles."
Of related interest: recent SCOTUS mumblings about counter-agency and counter-Executive doctrines, including the Unitary Executive Theory's necessary implication of a Unitary Legislative counterpart. Seehttps://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/did-justice-kagan-debilit....
But by repeating these things over and over, they create a chilling effect (after all they might shoot you in broad daylight) and also normalize the idea so they can then arrest people over it. Kristi Noem is using the word “doxxing” to describe recording and posting videos. And then describes doxxing as “violence”. Right wing Twitter is eating up this characterization and is asking the administration to jail people for recording. They’re priming the public to support such blatant violations of the first amendment.
Either you fight for your rights or it gets worse. Clearly Trump and ICE don't care about your freedom or rights, so you now have to decide whether you submit or resist.
EFF: Federal Judge Upholds Arizonans’ Right to Record the Police - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-... - August 11th, 2023
EFF: Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ... - February 23rd, 2023
EFF: Victory! Another Court Protects the Right to Record Police - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-... - July 12th, 2022
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