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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same ANC rep threatened to shut down any business that treated workers unfairly.  She's young and idealistic, but like many other 3C ANC reps think they were elected to push forward their own views rather than represent their consituents.    [/quote]

I don’t really care about her idealism or whether she misunderstands her constituents. [b]she should not be making public threats about unconstitutional actions[/b]. [/quote]

Well, that's her 1st Amendment right. Her constituents can vote her out for her manic online behavior.

But let's make something explicitly clear: this ANC rep has exactly zero power over the DC government or the local library. She can post whatever Twitter-Twatter she wants, but she is effectively toothless.

Do we actually have a confirmation that the library event was canceled? I'm not believing anything that comes from Very Online People. [/quote]

If she successfully pressured the library to cancel the event, as she claims, she absolutely could be sued under the 1st Amend. Hopefully ANCs have good indeminification or she bought umbrella insurance… [/quote]

As an elected member of our government she would have violated a first amendment right by using her government power to restrain/censor speech in a public forum.  That is exactly what the first amendment is meant to protect people from, the tyranny of government.  She should lose everything she has if this is indeed cancelled. [/quote]

The ANCs have no power over the library, though, so it'd make for an interesting case -- if she has no actual power to tell the library what to do, is it a 1st Amendment violation? Seems like suing the library would have a better chance of succeeding (and also the library surely has deeper pockets than some random ANC member).[/quote]

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