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Pelosi House’s Top Priority: Chilling First Amendment Speech and Privacy Rights

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 10 2019

Well, the new Nancy Pelosi-led House of Representatives has made its top priority clear. It's outing American citizens for their political beliefs and the causes they support, threatening our First Amendment freedoms of speech, association and political participation. Among the provisions of the just-introduced H.R. 1, to which they’ve affixed the Orwellian title "For the People Act of 2019," donors to non-profit organizations would have their identifying personal information forcibly disclosed to government authorities and potential hackers. Pelosi, Senate…

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