{"id":46820,"date":"2021-02-18T06:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/watch-trump-not-protected-by-first-amendment-for-inciting-insurrection-rep-raskin-says-pbs-newshour.php"},"modified":"2021-02-18T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:49:28","slug":"watch-trump-not-protected-by-first-amendment-for-inciting-insurrection-rep-raskin-says-pbs-newshour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/first-amendment\/watch-trump-not-protected-by-first-amendment-for-inciting-insurrection-rep-raskin-says-pbs-newshour.php","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Trump not protected by First Amendment for inciting insurrection, Rep. Raskin says &#8211; PBS NewsHour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Democrats took aim at the Trump legal teams expected First Amendment defense, saying it has no basis in the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Raskins remarks in the player above.<\/p>\n<p>Lead House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin argued in the Senate trial that there is a First Amendment defense against the impeachment charge is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Futher, Raskin said, The First Amendment does not create some superpower immunity from impeachment.  <\/p>\n<p>Thursdays session follows the previous days raw and visceral video of last months deadly insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Though most of the Senate jurors seem to have made up their minds, making Trumps acquittal likely, the never-before-seen audio and video released Wednesday is now a key exhibit in Trumps impeachment trial as lawmakers prosecuting the case argue Trump should be convicted of inciting the siege.<\/p>\n<p>Trump lawyers are expected to will argue Friday that his words were protected by the Constitutions First Amendment and just a figure of speech.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-trump-not-protected-by-first-amendment-for-inciting-insurrection-says-rep-raskin\" title=\"WATCH: Trump not protected by First Amendment for inciting insurrection, Rep. Raskin says - PBS NewsHour\">WATCH: Trump not protected by First Amendment for inciting insurrection, Rep. Raskin says - PBS NewsHour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Democrats took aim at the Trump legal teams expected First Amendment defense, saying it has no basis in the evidence. Watch Raskins remarks in the player above<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}