[necubi]

Expressing your first amendment right to protest is not “almost anything.” Historically, courts have taken very dim view of government retaliation for first-amendment protected activities.

[ottah]

It's trivial for the state to punish you and nearly impossible to assert your own rights. It is a very hard legal battle to get those rights acknowledged and upheld by the courts.

[JumpCrisscross]

> nearly impossible to assert your own rights. It is a very hard legal battle to get those rights acknowledged and upheld by the courts

What are you basing this on? This administration is constantly losing in court.

[SilverElfin]

They mean it’s costly - in time and money - so in practice random individuals who are abused by the government can’t defend their rights and simply have to accept losing them.

Plus even if the administration loses, why would they care? They aren’t going to jail for those losses.

[JumpCrisscross]

> They mean it’s costly

Which is far from “nearly impossible.”

> even if the administration loses, why would they care? They aren’t going to jail

Neither is someone whose TSA PreCheck is revoked.

[NotSammyHagar]

They lose but ignore that they have lost, just keep going, the courts aren't shutting them down very effectively.

[JumpCrisscross]

> They lose but ignore that they have lost

The way this comment ignores that the administration has not been held in contempt by the Supreme Court?

[bdangubic]

nor will they. the scotus is just an extension of one of the two political parties these days and for foreseeable future