Nothing to do with free speech.
Technically speaking, she violated 18 U.S.C. § 2071 which deals with the mutilation of official federal records & sets a criminal penalty of destroying documents of up to three years in prison.
Dems in congress voted to give themselves Prosecutorial Immunity.
No one should be above the law.
I agree in that no one should be above the law. I would also point out that it was only a copy, not actually an official document. Serious question: is a copy considered an official document?
Purely out of curiosity, do we need to pursue anyone who has ever recycled/thrown away a speech from previous years? Garbagemen, janitors, etc.
If Pelosi tore up a copy of the official document then I have no problem with it, other than her behavior. If she tore up an official federal record she should be charged with it and forced to explain her actions to a jury. If they acquit her, that's it then.
other than her behavior.
Which shows how emotionally unstable she is and shouldn't be a speaker.
Purely out of curiosity, do we need to pursue anyone who has ever recycled/thrown away a speech from previous years? Garbagemen, janitors, etc.
Nice strawman, but she's not a Janitor, and it was not her job/concern to destroy official documents (copies or not).
But it's her free speech to do so. Also, it matters what is considered an official document- were those papers considered an official document?
If so, then yes- she may have broken the law (although counter-point, 1st amendment). Otherwise it wasn't and it wasn't breaking the law.
I don't like her one bit, but the laws should apply to all of us equally.
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