{"id":301832,"date":"2026-08-31T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301832"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:37:17","slug":"the-first-amendment-does-not-belong-only-to-the-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301832","title":{"rendered":"The First Amendment Does Not Belong Only to the Beloved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some constitutional victories arrive with trumpets. Others arrive quietly in a case the press has decided not to love, for a journalist many would rather not defend. Democracy Partners v. O&#8217;Keefe is one of the latter.James O&#8217;Keefe is controversial. That&#8217;s no secret. In 2022, a Washington jury found against O&#8217;Keefe and Allison Maass&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/08\/31\/the_first_amendment_does_not_belong_only_to_the_beloved_154456.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some constitutional victories arrive with trumpets. Others arrive quietly in a case the press has decided not to love, for a journalist many would rather not defend. Democracy Partners v. O&#8217;Keefe is one of the latter.James O&#8217;Keefe is controversial. That&#8217;s no secret. In 2022, a Washington jury found against O&#8217;Keefe and Allison Maass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301832"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=301832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}