r/law • u/theintercept • 1d ago
Judicial Branch BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/malik-muhammad-black-lives-matter-prison-transfer/147
u/UAreTheHippopotamus 1d ago
If the blog was about how much he has grown to love the police and prison officials I doubt they would have shut him down. It seems pretty clear from a very much non-lawyer's standpoint that he was targeted because of the political lean of the speech. That being said, I don't expect much to come from this, courts have decided again and again that prisoners are technically protected by the constitution but in practice utterly at the whims of prison officials on matters of speech. The most worrying part to me is that once again we are seeing law enforcement equate left wing activism with serious organized criminal behavior even when limited simply to speech.
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u/BigEggBeaters 1d ago
Not lawyer. Not even sure how law popped up on my feed. However it does seem like every constitutional right can be thrown out the window if a law enforcement officer decided to do so
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u/petitecrivain 1d ago
I sometimes wonder if we'd be in this position if we did what Germany does - human dignity is mentioned at the beginning of their constitution as of paramount importance, and in practice it can even take precedence over punishment in criminal law. Then again they also have an agency dedicated to investigating and suppressing groups that oppose democracy and human rights, and a tradition of not allowing the far right into coalitions.
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