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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claims she is “concerned” that if the First Amendment stopped government from “pressuring” social media platforms to censor “harmful information,” this would be “hamstringing the government in significant ways.”

IN FACT, James Madison — the father of the Constitution and the primary author of the First Amendment — wrote that “controls on government” are “necessary” because public officials are not “angels.”

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