“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,” Hill said.
Notably absent from Hill’s explanation was any description of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Mayorkas. Hill all but admitted that, with the impeachment, Republicans are aiming to make Mayorkas the face of their anti-Biden, anti-immigrant campaign, despite his having not committed impeachable offenses.”
Republicans are banning age-appropriate books about gender identity and sexuality from schools and public libraries, yes. And it seems to me, a non-attorney, that it’s a clear 1A violation. I’m not disputing that at all. This is terrible, deeply harmful, and also wildly discriminatory against LGBTQ+ children.
But then you have California–a Democratic supermajority–trying to legislate unconstitutional 1A violations in regards to the internet. See here; you will note that courts have so far enjoined the law from going into effect because it’s a massive 1A violation for both minors–since children do have limited 1A protections–and adults. And before yous insist that that’s just California being California, no, New York state is trying to do the same sort of thing, all because, “won’t someone think of the children?!?” IMO, attempts to censor the whole internet because something might, potentially, ‘harm’ children through mere existence, is, arguably, worse, since that imposes significantly more limitations on children–and on adults!–then a school or public library.