Less than a week after the FBI’s search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called for the repeal of the Espionage Act on Saturday, saying it was an “egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.”
Driving the news: The Department of Justice filed a motion on Thursday to unseal parts of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
– Documents released on Friday revealed Trump may have kept documents at his Florida residence in violation of the Espionage Act and other federal laws.
The big picture: “The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI,” Paul tweeted on Saturday alongside a link to a 2019 post from the Future of Freedom Foundation, explaining the history of dissent against the law and making the case for its repeal.
– “It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul added.
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Rand Paul calls for repeal of Espionage Act after Trump FBI searchhttps://t.co/ynhLNZUoxW
— Axios (@axios) August 14, 2022One way to stop Trump from violating laws is by repealing all the laws https://t.co/DFkzXjdDwP
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 14, 2022
The ignorance of this tweet is simply astounding. He has never served, doesn’t know anything about the intelligence community or DoD and can’t comprehend that declassifying secure documents could present a grave danger to the United States.
Unserious bullshit https://t.co/5VjAFeWiVP
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) August 14, 2022
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