Left-wing censorship: Hundreds demand that Judge Barrett's book not be published
More than 600 people are calling on Penguin Random House to break the $2 million contract with the judge and withdraw the decision to publish her book.
Hundreds of people have signed a letter demanding that Penguin Random House cancel its contract for the publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book, which reportedly contains her memoirs and tells the story of the overturning of the landmark ruling on Roe v. Wade, the right to abortion.
The letter, signed by more than 600 people, demands that Barrett's $2 million deal with the publisher be broken and that the decision to publish her book be reevaluated.
"It hurts democracy"
The first sentence of the letter calling to censure the Supreme Court justice says: "We care deeply about freedom of expression." It then demanded the publisher deny Amy Coney Barrett the right to freely express herself by not publishing her memoirs of her life. According to the text:
It goes on to accuse Barrett and her fellow conservative justices of "dismantling protections for the human rights to privacy, self-determination, and bodily autonomy along with the federal right to abortion in the United States," and uses the United Nations and Human Rights Watch (which do not rule on the constitutionality of laws in the country) as the authorities to justify their claims:
Leftists point out that publishing Barrett's book causes Penguin Random House to violate "its own Code of Conduct and fail to comply with international human rights." "This is not just a book we don't agree with, and we're not asking for censorship." They go on to justify the publisher canceling the book:
According to BPR Business & Politics: "The Orwellian idea that the free speech must be censored to save it is truly a sign of today's twisted times in which the left runs roughshod over the constitutional rights of Americans by deferring authority to unelected globalist bodies that are overly hostile to longstanding American principles."