Also even if they had chanted that, it would be protected speech.
Moreover, if you want to call for the end of a nation, doing so because they actively engage in or facilitate a Genocide is completely warranted.
In one sense it’s protected. In another, more acute sense, it’s gonna piss off the cops and put them in an escalatory mood that can only end with the catharsis of busting heads.
So much so, it’s protected speech even in a repressive country like Iran.
Republicans are using this as an opportunity to try to cut higher education spending at schools they think are insufficiently conservative.
Smith Act still on the books. Which court case would you say most clearly limits it? Brandenburg?
These congresspeople must agree with the chant. What better way to kill America than to attack free speech?
Unfortunately, there is a significant cost to getting the FBI to concede that (hopefully) well-known fact. If the "culprits" are lucky it would be just an hours-long visit and inquisition.
Entirely on brand for this Congress to investigate completely legal acts. They should put Comer in charge.
okay, two problems
And how is Congress giving orders to the FBI? Separation of Powers??