So much for the First Amendment in Red-State Poster Child Mississippi

[RoryN]

LOL. Earning the derisive laughter yet again.

Judge orders Mississippi newspaper to delete editorial criticizing public officials​

First Amendment lawyers and press freedom advocates are sounding alarms after a Mississippi newspaper was forced by a judge to delete an editorial criticizing city officials in Clarksdale.

The city sued the publishers of the Clarksdale Press Register over an editorial from February 8, which criticized officials for failing to notify the public about a hearing on proposed tax increases.

On Tuesday, without a hearing to review the allegations, Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the newspaper to “remove” the column from its website.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-register-first-amendment-judge-b2701108.html

 

[domroger]

LOL. Earning the derisive laughter yet again.

Judge orders Mississippi newspaper to delete editorial criticizing public officials​

First Amendment lawyers and press freedom advocates are sounding alarms after a Mississippi newspaper was forced by a judge to delete an editorial criticizing city officials in Clarksdale.

The city sued the publishers of the Clarksdale Press Register over an editorial from February 8, which criticized officials for failing to notify the public about a hearing on proposed tax increases.

On Tuesday, without a hearing to review the allegations, Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the newspaper to “remove” the column from its website.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-register-first-amendment-judge-b2701108.html

Land of the free my ass

 

[Politruk]

I hope the ACLU looks into this.