Cruz: Dems Ignore Major Threats, While Attempting to Re-Write First Amendment

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Speaking from the Senate floor Tuesday night Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) lambasted the Congressional body for failing to respond to a litany of major foreign and domestic policy issues facing the U.S. and debating instead a Democratic proposal to abrogate the First Amendment by more harshly regulating political speech.

The proposal Cruz addressed would allow Congress to regulate campaign spending in a way that he describes as “bar none the most radical proposal that has been considered by the United States Senate in the time I have served… Its effects would be breathtaking.”

“In the Democratic Senate of 2014, citizens’ free speech rights are tools for partisan warfare,” Cruz said.

Cruz added that the “new First Amendment” created by the Democratic proposal would allow Congress to treat political speech differently than the free speech guaranteed in the current law of the land.

“I don’t see in the current First Amendment ‘Congress can make reasonable restrictions on the free speech.’ It doesn’t say that. It says Congress shall make no law abridging the free speech,” Cruz said.

“The First Amendment is not about reasonable speech, the First Amendment was enacted to protect unreasonable speech. I for one certainly don’t want our speech limited to that speech that elected politicians in Washington think is reasonable,” Cruz said.

The lawmaker invoked the Alien and Sedition Acts as an example of the danger in allowing government decide what constitutes “reasonable” speech.

H/T: Washington Free Beacon

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