July 20, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging members of the House and Senate to cosponsor the Free Speech Protection Act by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio):
“Senator Rand Paul and Representative Jim Jordan have introduced the most important civil liberties protection legislation in at least a decade. The Free Speech Protection Act ends the practice of federal government officials, agencies and their contractors of communicating with media and social media platforms to censor speech. What’s more, it provides the ability of those whose speech is censored to take legal action against those government officials who were responsible for the censorship.
“This is why Americans for Limited Government is urging every Member of Congress to cosponsor the Free Speech Protection Act. Every American should agree that the right to dissent, which is at the heart of the First Amendment freedom of speech and assembly clauses, is part of the DNA of the American political experience. Every Member of Congress should be appalled by the abuses of power and work to assure that future administrations cannot do the same to their political opposition.”
Attachments:
Letter to Congress in favor of the Free Speech Protection Act, July 20, 2023 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-Free-Speech-Protection-Act-7-20-23.pdf
Urge Congress To End Unconstitutional Censorship! https://limitgov.salsalabs.org/urge-congress-end-unconstitutional-censorship/index.html
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