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.@Brian Karem, known for his aggressive questoning at White House events, had his press pass suspended for 30 days. . . His attorney @BoutrousTed says this "violates the First Amendment" and due process. "I just want to go back and do my job," Karem says. cnn.com/videos/tv/2019…
"I am provocative, and I am a smart aleck. But I'm not going to apologize for that. That's OK under the First Amendment," @BrianKarem says to @brianstelter.
As the Supreme Court said in Boos v Barry: “in public debate our own citizens must tolerate insulting, and even outrageous, speech in order to provide ‘adequate ‘breathing space’ to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.’”
Supreme Court: We have “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
