WPRO News
Former Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice and potential Republican candidate for Senate Robert Flanders joined WPRO’s Gene Valicenti Thursday morning to discuss First Amendment issues relating to protests. Flanders also commented on President Trump’s reaction to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia last week.
Flanders said that “free speech means nothing if it’s not freedom of speech for the kind of words and ideas that we hate. Even hate speech, as abhorrent and odious as it is, is entitled to protection under our Constitution.”
On President Trump’s reaction to the events in Charlottesville, Flanders said that, although he voted for the president, “Many of the goals that he’s trying to achieve are praiseworthy, but the way he’s going about it and the dysfunction we’re witnessing is regrettable.” Flanders also said “I think in many ways he’s his own worst enemy in terms of how he’s conducting himself in office.”
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