This rather is what I was saying yesterday, and if only more Republicans had stood up for Free Speech
Hawley explains lone ‘no’ vote on bipartisan Asian hate crimes bill
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he couldn’t join with the rest of the Senate in approving an Asian hate crimes bill on Thursday because the legislation was too broad and could infringe on free speech.
My big problem with Sen Hirono’s bill that Senate voted on today is that it turns the federal government into the speech police – gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it. Raises big free speech questions
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 23, 2021
In a follow-up statement to Fox News, Hawley added that the language could be “dangerous.”
“It’s too broad,” Hawley said. “As a former prosecutor, my view is it’s dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents.”
He’s correct. It gives, again, Los Federales even more power to regulate speech, which, last time I checked, violated the Constitution.
