“I’m not acting as a lawyer. I’m acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government,” Giuliani continued. “Anything I did should be praised.” Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal attorney
Special to El Rrun-Rrun
(Ed.'s Note: This weekend counsel to Donald Trump Rudolph Giuliani said on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that he would defy any subpoena issued by congressional committees, and in the same sentence said he would comply only if Trump allowed him. Giuliani's disdain for the First Amendment and the public's right to know is well documented. Below is an excerpt from Speaking Freely, by Floyd Abrams, a staunch defender of the First Amendment in cases like the Pentagon Papers, among many others.)
"When recent college graduates were polled late in 2002 about whom they wished to emulate most in the world, their first choices were their fathers and their mothers. The third was Rudolph Giuliani.
"The masterful leader of New York City at the time of the horrors of September 11, 200, the Giuliani of those days was commanding yet emphatic, plain spoken yet eloquent. When Time chose him as its Person of the Year, itpraised him for being "tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shirking from the pain all around hi."
"Giuliani was Mayor of the world, Time profile concluded, a view consistent with that of Queen Elizabeth, who knighted him only a few months later.
"I knew a different Giuliani. Two years earlier, in the course of defending the Brooklyn Museum against the mayor's efforts to punish it for presenting an art exhibition he claimed was "sick," I found myself confronted with an authoritarian Giuliani, a bullying Giuliani, a Giuliani deeply contemptuous of the First Amendment.
(The right to think is the beginning freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought." Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy)
"None of this came as a surprise to New Yorkers familiar with the mayor's prior conduct. While he had served the city well in many respects, particularly in overseeing a police department that significantly reduced the amount of crime in the city, in other areas, such as communicating with the city's immense minority population, he seemed tone deaf. And when it came to the First Amendment, a constitutional rule rooted in the idea that the freedom to criticize government and government officials is central to a free society, he was a constant problem, a frequent opponent, an enemy.
"When members of the New York Police Department, the Human Resources Administration, and the Administration for Children's Services had each sought to say things publicly of which the Giuliani administration disapproved, they were forbidden to do so by the city government. In three separate lawsuits commenced in federal court, the Giuliani administration was blocked from preventing or punishing speech.
"When dissident groups – organizers of a Million Youth March in Harlem, supporters of legalizing marijuana, taxi drivers protesting city policies, protesters against alleged police brutality – sought to criticize the administration in parades or demonstrations, they were likewise forbidden to do so; it took four separate litigations in federal court to protect the rights of these would-be dissenters. When activist organizations such as Housing Works Inc., a group that provided housing and other services for homeless and formerly homeless persons with HIV and AIDS, and Families First, a community center that provided counseling services, criticized the Giuliani administration, only judicial intervention saved the former from being defunded and the latter from being evicted from city housing.
"In all, over thirty-five separate lawsuits were brought against the city under Giuliani's stewardship arising out of his insistence in doing the one thing the First Amendment most clearly forbids: using the power of the government to restrict or punish speech critical of government itself. While the city garnered a few victories in court (rulings, for example, that let stand the city's zoning laws designed to limit the spread of various "adult" facilities), in the overwhelming majority of the cases it lost, but only after forcing those who wished to (and were entitled to) speak out to seek judicial remedies.
"The same was true in other First Amendment-related areas. The Giuliani administration took a starkly restrictive view of the city's freedom of information law, thus requiring people who wanted information about the workings of city government to retain counsel and go to court to challenge the city's refusal to make public what was supposed to be public information. When journalists sought to cover public events such as parades or demonstrations on the street, they were often placed in pens, away from the newsworthy action, and frequently barred from sites where members of the public were free to walk.
"So often was it necessary for the courts to step in to restrain the Giuliani administration from violating the First Amendment that Professor Amy Adler of New York University Law School observed that 'it seems as if I could teach a First Amendment course just on Mayor Giuliani.'
"The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the federal appeals court for New York, Vermont, and Connecticut, offered a similar observation based upon its own unhappy experience with the mayor. In a rare rebuke to the overall behavior of a city administration, it observed that 'we would be ostriches if we failed to take judicial notice of the heavy stream of First Amendment litigation generated by New York City in recent years...As a result of the relentless onslaught of First Amendment litigation, the federal courts have, to a considerable extent, been drafted into the role of local licensers for the City of New York.'
"The court then listed seventeen examples in which the federal courts has 'preliminary enjoined or found unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds some action or policy of the City.'"
"Giuliani was Mayor of the world, Time profile concluded, a view consistent with that of Queen Elizabeth, who knighted him only a few months later.
"I knew a different Giuliani. Two years earlier, in the course of defending the Brooklyn Museum against the mayor's efforts to punish it for presenting an art exhibition he claimed was "sick," I found myself confronted with an authoritarian Giuliani, a bullying Giuliani, a Giuliani deeply contemptuous of the First Amendment.
(The right to think is the beginning freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought." Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy)
"None of this came as a surprise to New Yorkers familiar with the mayor's prior conduct. While he had served the city well in many respects, particularly in overseeing a police department that significantly reduced the amount of crime in the city, in other areas, such as communicating with the city's immense minority population, he seemed tone deaf. And when it came to the First Amendment, a constitutional rule rooted in the idea that the freedom to criticize government and government officials is central to a free society, he was a constant problem, a frequent opponent, an enemy.
"When members of the New York Police Department, the Human Resources Administration, and the Administration for Children's Services had each sought to say things publicly of which the Giuliani administration disapproved, they were forbidden to do so by the city government. In three separate lawsuits commenced in federal court, the Giuliani administration was blocked from preventing or punishing speech.
"When dissident groups – organizers of a Million Youth March in Harlem, supporters of legalizing marijuana, taxi drivers protesting city policies, protesters against alleged police brutality – sought to criticize the administration in parades or demonstrations, they were likewise forbidden to do so; it took four separate litigations in federal court to protect the rights of these would-be dissenters. When activist organizations such as Housing Works Inc., a group that provided housing and other services for homeless and formerly homeless persons with HIV and AIDS, and Families First, a community center that provided counseling services, criticized the Giuliani administration, only judicial intervention saved the former from being defunded and the latter from being evicted from city housing.
"In all, over thirty-five separate lawsuits were brought against the city under Giuliani's stewardship arising out of his insistence in doing the one thing the First Amendment most clearly forbids: using the power of the government to restrict or punish speech critical of government itself. While the city garnered a few victories in court (rulings, for example, that let stand the city's zoning laws designed to limit the spread of various "adult" facilities), in the overwhelming majority of the cases it lost, but only after forcing those who wished to (and were entitled to) speak out to seek judicial remedies.
"The same was true in other First Amendment-related areas. The Giuliani administration took a starkly restrictive view of the city's freedom of information law, thus requiring people who wanted information about the workings of city government to retain counsel and go to court to challenge the city's refusal to make public what was supposed to be public information. When journalists sought to cover public events such as parades or demonstrations on the street, they were often placed in pens, away from the newsworthy action, and frequently barred from sites where members of the public were free to walk.
"So often was it necessary for the courts to step in to restrain the Giuliani administration from violating the First Amendment that Professor Amy Adler of New York University Law School observed that 'it seems as if I could teach a First Amendment course just on Mayor Giuliani.'
"The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the federal appeals court for New York, Vermont, and Connecticut, offered a similar observation based upon its own unhappy experience with the mayor. In a rare rebuke to the overall behavior of a city administration, it observed that 'we would be ostriches if we failed to take judicial notice of the heavy stream of First Amendment litigation generated by New York City in recent years...As a result of the relentless onslaught of First Amendment litigation, the federal courts have, to a considerable extent, been drafted into the role of local licensers for the City of New York.'
"The court then listed seventeen examples in which the federal courts has 'preliminary enjoined or found unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds some action or policy of the City.'"
7 comments:
They're both going to prison. I wish they'd literally and publicly hang Rrump, though.
PrietodelasPrietas.
Whoever wrote this epistle seems familiar with the corruption in Cameron County and so this story was easy to write. Local officials get by with almost everything and the DA Luis Saenz looks the other way when a political compadre is involved....same with the sheriff. Our local judiciary is also a part of the political corruption here. Either a mordida, a family member, a compadre, or a comadre or a key Democratic Party member will always be "no billed" or get a free pass. That leaves the poor, the unknown and the "average Joe" to get hammered judicially. This county stinks of corruption.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Since the day he was elected, any and all Trump supporters have been identified, listed and scheduled for destruction. This nonsense is just more of the politics of destruction.
The Democrat Socialist Party cannot get over the fact that our republic voted for a non-politician who is shaking up the status quo. He will triumph again and so will the American people, with God's help. Be pro-life! Vote Trump!
parece que se esta cagando y el otro listo para limpiar...
Treason! Arrest them!
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