From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Kelly Laco   
   Published April 30, 2022   
      
   Federal and state lawmakers, constitutional scholars and other experts   
   are expressing concerns with the Department of Homeland Security's new   
   misinformation board, which they say is the Biden administration's   
   attempt to stifle free speech.   
      
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   Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was quick to condemn this latest action by the   
   Biden administration, promising to introduce legislation to defund the   
   new disinformation board.   
      
   "The Federal Government has no business creating a Ministry of Truth.   
   The Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Board" is   
   unconstitutional and unamerican, and I'll be introducing a bill to   
   defund it," he tweeted Friday.   
      
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   "The same party that spent years promoting the Russia collusion hoax,   
   suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, & equated parents to   
   terrorists believes it has credibility to control your speech," House   
   Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tweeted on Friday. "Biden   
   must immediately abandon his plan to create an Orwellian Ministry of   
   Truth."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/free-speech-concerns-dhs-disinf   
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   Is this misinformation board unconstitutional?   
      
   Does the First Amendment forbid all departments of government from   
   interfering with free speech, or does it just limit what Congress can   
   do?   
      
   What if this board decides to subpoena people and have them explain why   
   they are spreading disinformation?  Would this be unconstitutional?   
      
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