The RESTRICT Act Gives Up Nearly All Notions Of Checks And Balances

 To address our nation's hysteria over dance videos, more than twenty Senators, both Republican and Democrat, support the RESTRICT Act.

The RESTRICT Act eschews almost all notions of checks and balances by granting a vast amount of power to the Executive branch to intervene in all kinds of economic transactions.

Though the bill already designates China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba as foreign adversaries, the RESTRICT Act also empowers the Secretary of Commerce to unilaterally add any other country to this official enemies list.

In other words, to rid social media of any disagreeable voices, the RESTRICT Act allows the Executive Branch to dissolve the First Amendment so long as it utters the magic words of "National security."

Even worse, anyone who violates or merely evades an order given by the Secretary of Commerce under the RESTRICT Act could go to prison for 20 years.

My colleague, Sen. J.D. Vance, expressed concern that the RESTRICT Act may be creating "a PATRIOT Act for the digital age." He's right to be concerned.

The RESTRICT Act is not a magic cure-all, but rather a poison that threatens the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.

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