{"id":7526,"date":"2026-07-02T11:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:27:32","slug":"vance-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/2026\/07\/02\/vance-1a\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the First Amendment backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JD Vance <\/strong>(June 26, 2026): &#8220;If the First Amendment says that we have a free and open debate and then the American people judge based on that free and open debate,\u00a0 [that is] the sense in which I think the election in 2020 was rigged.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/shows\/real-time-with-bill-maher\/s24\/abc00905-6a23-46f6-a531-20214bb06f37\/e20-june-26-2026-vice-president-jd-vance-senator-raphael-warnock-larry-wilmore\/70e37c76-f164-4ea5-add0-40d221b7186e\">WATCH THE INTERVIEW\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor &amp; Publisher<\/strong> magazine: &#8220;The First Amendment says nearly the opposite of what Vance claims&#8230; [It] is not a general guarantee of a balanced debate enforced against private companies. It is a restraint on government. Its entire purpose is to protect citizens and companies from state interference with speech and the press&#8230;\u00a0 [private] companies decide what to host, rank, and amplify. That is not a constitutional violation. It is itself a First Amendment-protected activity.&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/stories\/how-vice-president-jd-vance-gets-the-first-amendment-exactly-backward,262392?newsletter=262128&amp;vgo_ee=p6Eok%2BUnzeIH57w8LHIjgwlHxTXsEfyXXzDaIOz3N37A%2Bui%2ByiQ%3D%3Areoa4%2BqCbRfcfPIwfpymKpz5GflCO2ci\">READ THE ARTICLE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance (June 26, 2026): &#8220;If the First Amendment says that we have a free and open debate and then the American people judge based on that free and open debate,\u00a0 [that is] the sense in which I think the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/2026\/07\/02\/vance-1a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7531,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}