Nancy Pelosi is very confused about how free speech works

Published August 25, 2017 7:16pm ET



On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gave an interview with local San Francisco TV station KRON. When asked about her calls for a group to be denied a permit which wanted to exercise their First Amendment rights at a national park, her argument was … strange.

Pelsoi said, “The Constitution does not say that a person can … yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that.”

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