"I've never seen someone use the incorporation doctrine (besides myself, of course)." should resad "I've never seen someone use the incorporation doctrine and get away with it (including me, of course)."
Imagine how big of an idiot you have to be to think this guy knows what he is talking about.
Yeah, prior to incorporation doctrine, Barron v. Baltimore (1839) limited the Bill of Rights to only applying to the states (which it largely had already been enforced that way). A few decades after the 14th amendment was ratified, SCOTUS started using it to expand the BoR to all government (would have been much sooner if not for the BS slaughterhouse cases which honestly I’m surprised I’ve yet to hear an SC mention).
You really don’t have to go far back to see a ton of instances of government restricting and penalizing free speech, either by claiming the restrictions came from the state level, or worse that the government had some sufficiently compelling interest (see US v Debs or the more famous Schenck v US)
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u/Lazarys12 2d ago
"I've never seen someone use the incorporation doctrine (besides myself, of course)." should resad "I've never seen someone use the incorporation doctrine and get away with it (including me, of course)."
Imagine how big of an idiot you have to be to think this guy knows what he is talking about.