“You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. That’s the test, that’s the Supreme Court test,” said Tim Walz in tonight’s debate.
It is not the Supreme Court test. The SCOTUS case the quote is from was overturned in 1969, when the court replaced the “clear and present danger” test with the Brandenburg test.
Perhaps most incredibly, Yale Law School graduate JD Vance followed up and uncritically repeated the “fire in a crowded theater” phrase.
Fact checking VP debate claims from Walz and Vance's 2024 showdown (Laura Doan/CBS News)
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BREAKING: Walz Dominates Pathological Liar Vance in VP Debate
My take: dworkinsubstack.com/p/walz-dom…
CART. To put the cart before the horse; to mention the last part of a story first. To be flogged at the cart's arse or tail; persons guilty of petty larceny are frequently sentenced to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the common executioner, for a certain distance.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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"That is a damning non-answer,” retorts Walz.
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I recall their current owner had some private meetings with Trump ~2019 or so. No idea what they discussed, but it’s a bad look for the NYT