Lee: Obama Wants to Launch an 'Assault on Free Speech'
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Sen. Mike Lee slams Pres. Obama for expressing support for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Reports The Daily Caller:

“It would certainly not encounter any support from me. Look, this is a suggestion with which I respectfully but most forcefully disagree. In the first place, we haven’t seen any language of what that would look like but in the second place, there a reason we haven’t seen language,” Lee told TheDC at the Tampa Bay Times Forum during the Republican National Convention.

“What we’re talking about here is a full-throated assault on political speech. There’s absolutely no way to overturn the Citizens United opinion without giving the government power to restrict what the Supreme Court has determined to be core political speech. That’s exactly why the founding fathers put the First Amendment in the Constitution.”

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