Dem's 'flagrantly unconstitutional' anti-white supremacy bill would 'gut the First Amendment': Turley
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A new bill says a person would commit the crime of conspiracy if they post a white supremacist social media post and someone else reads it and commits a crime.
"It is a criminal hate speech law that would violate core principles of the First Amendment," George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote in a Tuesday blog post. "It makes clear that the accused does not actually have to support or conspire in a crime." Ronn Blitzer is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics and breaking news.
Much of the bill deals with making it a crime to commit "conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime," outlining the elements of such an offense. Normally, criminal conspiracy statutes require two or more people working together toward the commission of a crime, but this bill only requires one person to actually be involved in the crime, if another person "published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on "replacement theory", or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group[.]"