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Impeachment Defense, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights

Jonathan Zittrain penned an op-ed about impeachment and the First Amendment.

“It can’t be that the solemn price for protecting our civil liberties against current and future abuses is that the president can incite a mob bearing huge flags with his name on them to storm the Capitol, kill a police officer, and further, not immediately tell them to stop or, as commander-in-chief, to refuse to send help,” he wrote. “Rather, that would be a sure way to make a mockery of the civil liberties, and government of checks and balances, contemplated and secured by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

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