RINOs Want to Make the Freedom Caucus Illegal
ALERT: After losing in Federal Court, the establishment isn’t going down quietly. Read our statement on the latest attempt by the uni-party to make the Freedom Caucus illegal below:
Press Release Statement:
“To protect its power and control, the uni-party’s ‘Ethics Committee’ wasted taxpayer dollars defending an obviously unconstitutional law that clearly violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Now, in response to being forced to obey the Constitution, they are asking the Court to do what it already refused to do: get rid of disfavored caucuses altogether. Their goal is to stamp out all opposition to the unlimited cash they are taking from their lobbyist cronies and Establishment dark money groups that are trying to unduly influence our elections with falsehoods about South Carolina’s conservative legislators. This is equal parts meritless, unconstitutional, and disgraceful. We will keep fighting for transparency and accountability. Citizens' rights, not the privileges of the connected and the powerful, must come first.”
Continued Remarks:
Yesterday we told you about our landmark victory for free speech and the Constitution. The ruling coalition of liberal Republicans and radical Democrats passed unconstitutional laws aimed at solidifying their grip on power and stamping out conservative opposition, but the Freedom Caucus defeated them in court.
To recap, these laws gave special privileges to favored caucuses while denying other caucuses – like the Freedom Caucus – those same rights. Specifically, these laws denied the Freedom Caucus the right to constitutionally protected free speech and equal protection under the law. Despite having years to fix the problem, the uni-party cared more about maintaining the failed status quo than protecting the Constitution. They chose to do nothing.
That’s when the SCFC filed a federal lawsuit seeking to restore our First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. But instead of respecting the rule of law and rectifying this blatantly illegal statute, the uni-party decided to spend tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to defend an unconstitutional law.
The US District Court of South Carolina quickly ruled in our favor. The judge issued a blistering summary judgment order, finding that the state statutes used by career politicians in an effort to silence the SC Freedom Caucus violate the Constitution. Striking them down as “a ban on speech,” the court held that the statutes violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and permanently enjoined their enforcement.
But here’s where things get interesting. Late last night, the defendants filed a motion to reconsider and asked the Court to find ALL of Act 344, the law that created “special legislative interests caucuses”, unconstitutional. Talk about the gang that can’t shoot straight. First the uni-party wasted taxpayer money defending the indefensible by arguing that the Act 344 doesn’t violate the Constitution. Now, after losing in court, they are arguing that Act 344 does in fact violate the Constitution and should be tossed out entirely.
So what does this really mean? The ruling coalition of RINOs and Democrats created a system which gave only the mere appearance of allowing dissent. It was a system that established controlled opposition through government control. But now that the Court found that system to be unconstitutional, the uni-party is demanding the Court strike down all caucuses not controlled by them, so they can get rid of the Freedom Caucus altogether.
The South Carolina Freedom Caucus is fighting to return the People’s House back to the People. And that scares the establishment beyond belief. But we need YOUR help fighting back.
Will you be one of the first to donate to the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, and join the fight to take our state back from the career politicians and their lobbyist friends?
