Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

The First Amendment knows no advantage. The Tea Party people would get the same respect and I am confident the same kind of treatment from the Federal Government and the Park Service that they have gotten here.

Context

Norton asserts that all groups, including the Tea Party, deserve equal treatment under the First Amendment.

01/23/2012

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