https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-first-amendment-shouldnt-ultimate-right-2132666 Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican, told Semafor that the First Amendment, which protects free speech, should no longer be considered the "ultimate right" in America.
Newsweek has reached out to Senator Lummis' press team for comment via email on Friday.
Why It Matters
Lummis' comments come shortly after Jimmy Kimmel's late-night television show was indefinitely suspended over his remarks about Charlie Kirk and the man now charged with his murder. The backlash over Kimmel's comments comes at a moment when America is deeply polarized over free speech.
Kirk's assassination on September 10 has become a major flash point. Supporters hailed him as a leading conservative voice for young voters and his public killing has fueled a broader fight over free speech, with tributes noting his platform to openly debate and others being terminated from their work due to comments about Kirk.
Trump called out the Biden administration in January for having "trampled free speech rights" through censorship, issuing a statement on securing the "right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech." However, over the past few months, First Amendment free-speech protections have been under scrutiny, as the Trump administration has moved to restrict campus speech, review green card applicants' social media, and now, engage with reactions to Kirk's death.
What To Know
ABC suspended Kimmel on Wednesday night amid pressure from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a move critics call censorship and Kirk supporters' praise.
The definition of free speech has come under scrutiny in the Trump administration, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying earlier this week that "there's free speech and then there's hate speech," and pledging to legally target those who cross the boundary.
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Senator Lummis told Semafor, "an FCC license, it's not a right. It really is a privilege." She continued, "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right. And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it."
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Director of the Democracy and Technology Division at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Christopher Anders, in a statement sent to Newsweek via email Wednesday: "Jimmy Kimmel is the latest target of the Trump administration's unconstitutional plan to silence its critics and control what the American people watch and read. Cowering to threats, ABC and the biggest owner of its affiliate stations gave the Trump FCC chairman exactly what he wanted by suspending Kimmel indefinitely and dropping the show.
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I see what ended Adolf being Trump's fate.
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>>1439910 >Cynthia >she OP don't be a lying faggot, that's clearly a man. Just look at him.
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>>1439920 Be respectful to manly looking women
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>>1439921 >women stop being such a faggot, tell the truth
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>>1439910 Wow, the fascists don't like free speech. Shocker.
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And because of what this ultra-right admin is doing, what is needed is the ultimate left but it probably does with so many now having 'Buyer's Regret' that destroys you but you yourself, Donald 'Use the Constitution as TPUSA ' Trump.
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>>1440087 MAGA retards cheer on retarded independents voting them in to break a Dem supermajority, but never make the connection to when they immediately lose full control of the government every single time they barely get it
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I was a beautiful altar boy... BAD PRIEST
I was a beautiful altar boy... BAD PRIEST Sat 20 Sep 2025 21:09:15 No. 1440091 Report Quoted By:
>>1439923 Only the young should become trannies. I'm too old to transition.., so I'll have to remain a feminine looking middle-aged man. God gave me the right to say this.
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>>1440090 http://www.profpito.com/bushgod.html "I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
But whatever, Trump is using the same for TP or he wouldn't be trampling on it. Just shows how bad things are when another rightist is right about Trump being wrong
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>>1440096 >by Doug Thompson you didn't read what I linked
>The author of the Capitol Hill Blue story has now withdrawn it. Doug Thompson messaged us to say: >Doug Thompson: This is to let you know that the piece on Bush and the Constitution has been changed and reads: >“This article was based on sources that we thought, at the time, were reliable. We have since discovered reasons to doubt their veracity. For that reason, this article has been removed from our database.” >I no longer stand behind that article or its conclusions and have said so in answers to several recent queries. In addition, I have asked that it be removed from a documentary film. Anonymous
>>1439910 It never was. The biggest flaw of democracy is that idiot leftists can speak, vote and cheat to power. What we need is managed democracy like Russia and Hungary. Rights should not be infinite. Managed democracy, managed speech, and managed living is the only way to build a pure society.
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>>1440118 >we they don't give you new shills much training do they
