Ty Cobb: Judge ‘Excoriated Hegseth’ Over Attempt to ‘Stifle the First Amendment Privileges’

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COBB: “So I think those the congressional six, if you will, folks. And Mr. Lemon and Pete Hegseth, you know, they all wrap into the First Amendment issues. You know, a judge in D.C., Richard leon, yesterday excoriated Hegseth and the department of whatever it is, defense for, you know, even attempting to stifle the First Amendment privileges of Mark Kelly, a man who had flown 39 combat missions and four space shuttles and served the country for decades. And and he and his congressional colleagues were they attempted to charge them for truthfully explaining in the terms that exist in the uniform code of military conduct that, you know, the military, when asked to commit war crimes, is not obligated to follow illegal orders. So they got they got kicked out of court there. You know, they’re coming back to try to defend themselves on additional grounds, which I think will go against them. You’ve got Don Lemon, of course, that’s a flagrant First Amendment violation. The magistrate, before whom he entered a guilty plea today only a few days ago or a week or more ago, throughout the government’s request to to indict Mr. Lemon, the federal judge to whom they appealed, it ruled likewise in the eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, also refused to honor what the government had attempted to do. Now, they later got a grand jury indictment. Unlike the congressional six, where, where, where not a single grand jury juror is reported to have voted in favor of indictment, that I mean, it’s it’s highly unusual that you don’t get a true bill. It’s, I think, unprecedented in America that not a single grand juror would vote for a true bill, and only with Jeanine Pirro, who couldn’t indict the Ukraine. I mean, the ham sandwich and and miss halligan in Virginia, who, you know, attempted to indict Comey and James unsuccessfully by acting inappropriately. Only these Trump sycophants that are”