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Tim Kaine: “There is another part of the First Amendment that says you have a right to assemble. My understanding--and the Senator…”

On the recordJune 15, 2016
There is another part of the First Amendment that says you have a right to assemble. My understanding--and the Senator is a lawyer, so he can tell me if I am wrong about the right to assemble. You have a right to assemble, but a government can condition that. It can say you have to get a permit or you can assemble here, not there. It cannot discriminate among points of view, but the common constitutional provision is that there can be reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of assembly under the First Amendment, and that is completely constitutional. Is that the Senator's understanding of the clause?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia
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Jun 15, 2016

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