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Should pending legislation worry federalist and Supremacy Claus?

By Douglas A. Berman

This new postat the "Threat Level" blog at Wired.com, which is titled "Prison Awaiting Hostile Bloggers," might give pause to some of this blog's most frequent commentors.  Here are the details: Proposed congressional legislation would demand up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to ?coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.?  Instead of prison, perhaps we should say gulag. The proposal by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Los Angeles, would never pass First Amendment muster, unless the U.S. Constitution was altered without us knowing.  So Sanchez, and the 14 other lawmakers who signed on to the proposal, are grandstanding to show the public they care about children and are opposed to cyberbullying...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).