No, Governor, You Can’t Cancel Our First Amendment Rights

Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 4.0

There’s not much ambiguity in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Yet, as just reported, Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte has decided he has the...