The Florida GOP candidate whose fundraising email said that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be hanged isn’t apologizing for his attacks against the Muslim congresswoman.
“we should hang these traitors where they stand.”
[The NRCC confirmed] that Buck had been removed from a “Young Guns” program …
… and appointed to lead the NRCC’s Young Nooses program instead.
Cease-and-desist order? This is beyond free speech.
So Kevin McCarthy what is the age range for being a member of the NRCC’s Young Guns Group?
Umm, not to be weightist but if you’re on your way to having a full set of Barr jowls can you really be seen as young?
So clearly Omar isn’t protected under 18 U.S.C. § 875, 18 U.S.C. § 876
Such a shame, this nation of laws doesn’t seem to work anymore.
There’s a hate factory at work against Omar:
“a decorated veteran of the 101st Airborne Division” who has taken the oath to defend the Constitution “very seriously.”
Eagerly awaits Buck to defend the Constitution from Trump’s repeated attacks
He’s got a rep for being dumb as a rock. Now he’s proving it. He’s running against Charlie Christ not Omar. Omar is a shoo in for re-election Buck is a long shot. He lost to Christ by 16 % in his last contest with him and no one thinks the red neck has a shot this time.
“Only the best people”…it never gets old.
He’s running a Trump campaign. He’ll get every racist moron to the polls for him with this hate-filled rhetoric.
You are incorrect. There is no imminent incitement to lawless conduct in Buck’s statements. It’s fully protected under the First Amendment, as it should be.
“Anyone who commits treason against the United States should be tried to the full extent of the law.”
Can’t argue with that, but good luck with the condition precedent.
Buck wrote in the email . . . that “we should hang these traitors where they stand.”
Whoever threatens to assault a United States official [a Member of Congress] with intent to intimidate shall be punished by a fine under this title or imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or both, except that imprisonment for a threatened assault shall not exceed 6 years. (18 US Code §115)
Barr is on it.
@txlawyer Even free speech has consequences.
But it’s still protected speech. “We should hang these traitors where they stand” is not a threat that Buck himself is going to hang Rep. Oman, nor is it reasonably likely to incite any imminent violence against her.
ETA: I should just add that Buck is creeping up to the constitutional line with this garbage. He’s not there yet, but he’s obviously playing with it.
Bear in mind that Omar and some of her colleagues receive death threats every week.
So don’t we have laws against making terroristic threats against elected officials, even Muslim ones? Has this guy been visited by the FBI yet? If not, why not?
ETA: the “even Muslim ones” comment was snark, since Donnie, this ass, and the other Islamaphobes think that Muslims don’t have rights in this country.
I have a hunch that’s because the two most powerful law-enforcement positions in the world are both currently occupied by criminals.
A handful of new appointments could flip this situation on its head. And that’s precisely what is going to happen.
That’s a question of fact for the jury. Omar has already said, in response to similar past statements, that she has been threatened (“Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in direct threats on my life—many directly referencing or replying to the President’s video").
Of course. Actual threats – e.g., “I’m gonna drive mah truck up to Washington D.C. and kill you dead with mah AR-15” – are not protected. But Buck didn’t personally threaten Omar. He accused her of treason and stated that “we” should hang “these traitors” where they stand. If he made such a statement to a mob carrying torches and pitchforks in front of the Capitol, that would be an unprotected imminent incitement. He didn’t. He made it in a dumbass fundraising mailer in Florida.
Nope. Any indictment based on that statement is going to get dismissed at the outset. It’s not even remotely a close question.
Perhaps you are referring to any indictment based only on that statement?
