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Justice Kavanaugh: Could the government regulate movie theaters and bookstores like it could Facebook?

Brett Kavanaugh asks Florida attorney Whitaker about one ongoing question from critics: would saying the First Amendment doesn’t prevent forced speech on websites undercut the rights of all kinds of other businesses that deal with speech?

Whitaker says no, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson picks up the question — asking exactly how the law would pick its targets consistently.

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